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The label conformal therapy has been applied to a wide variety of three-dimensional treatment planning and delivery procedures. The original concept for conformai therapy was to limit the normal tissue dose by conforming the treatment field to the beam’s-eye view (BEV) projection of the target volume under continuous rotation of the gantry [1]. A multileaf collimator (MLC) is generally used to efficiently collimate the multiple fields. Initial clinical trials are in progress with a form of fixed-field conformai therapy that relies on BEV field shaping of six or more fixedgantry fields to reduce the volume of normal tissue irradiated around a target volume [2–4].
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Boyer, A.L. (1998). Radiation Therapy Beam Modulation Techniques. In: Mittal, B.B., Purdy, J.A., Ang, K.K. (eds) Advances in Radiation Therapy. Cancer Treatment and Research, vol 93. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5769-2_2
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