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The shape of the treatment volume from two techniques of radiotherapy planning. On the left is a cuboidal shape based on old-fashioned ‘square’ planning from orthogonal radiographs; on the right is a spherical shape produced from conformal planning. The two volumes are designed to treat the same tumour target, but the sphere is half the volume of the cube.
