Elsevier, International Journal of Radiation Oncology - Biology - Physics, 3(94), p. 478-492, 2016
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2015.11.049
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Several recent developments in linear-accelerator-based radiotherapy such as fast multileaf collimators, accelerated intensity modulation paradigms like VMAT and flattening filter-free (FFF) high-dose-rate therapy have dramatically shortened the duration of treatment fractions. Deliverable photon dose distributions have approached physical complexity limits as a consequence of precise dose calculation algorithms and online 3D-image-guided patient positioning (Image-Guided RadioTherapy, IGRT).