Highlights
- •In vivo dosimetry for lung radiotherapy including SBRT is reviewed.
- •Clinical use (to date) of 3D patient dose estimation methods has been restricted to a small number of academic institutes.
- •Technical challenges that limit the accuracy of these methods are highlighted.
- •Limited data (to date) have been published on in vivo dosimetric methods applied to clinical lung SBRT.
- •This clinical data reveal that delivered dosimetry differs noticeably from the planned dosimetry in up to ∼35% of fractions.
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