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Illustration of the effect of high conformal radiation therapy and geometric miss due to delineation
The shaded circle is the delineated CTV and the open circle is the true CTV.
(a) Is the traditional 3D conventional RT with big margin and
(b) Is the conformal RT with small margin and shows a portion of the tumor not covered by the prescribed dose
