When discussing local treatment modalities, physicians often quip that there can be no blind
surgeons, suggesting that an inherent advantage to surgery is the ability to precisely
visualize the target. Advances in radiation therapy (RT) technology over the years have
significantly improved the radiation oncologists' abilities to precisely sculpt high-dose
radiation to a variety of targets, simultaneously improving local control and toxicity profiles.
However, even the most sophisticated methods of CT-based image-guided radiotherapy …