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Illustration of a method to obtain a nonuniform clinical target volume (CTV)–planning target volume (PTV) margin. The PTV is constructed by the union of all possible displacements of the CTV boundary points. (a) For a single irregular target with isocenter in the CTV. (b) For the SIMT technique, the isocenter is outside the target area.
