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ESTRO IMRT course 2015
Adaptive Radiotherapy
Brussels October 8th, 2015
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Adaptive RT:
The fundamental, yet abstract picture…
Adaptive radiotherapy:
•
explicitly acknowledge that radiotherapy treatment as a whole is a
process
•
this process is performed in presence of all kinds of
uncertainties
•
the uncertainties can be strongly
patient-dependent
•
uncertainties are understood as – stationary or non-stationary – random
processes
⇒
new understanding of an
radiotherapy treatment process
as
‘feedback control strategy’
…versus the conventional approach:
single planning in the beginning without further actions/corrections later