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Radiation Oncology • Thoracic Malignancies
Is it preferred to use VMAT or dynamic conformal arcs for coplanar lung SBRT?
If you use VMAT, do you take into account leaf interplay/leaves crossing PTV or potential overmodulation during planning?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
I don't know that there is a preference.
It's just different ways of getting dose to tumor. One is basically forward planned, one is inverse planned. There is an additional charge to do inverse planning.
Just as an example, the original CyberKnife plans were always NOT inverse planned and th...
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