A deep learning-informed interpretation of why and when dose metrics outside the PTV can affect the risk of distant metastasis in SBRT NSCLC patients.

However, the dose in PTV 3cm was found to be a highly significant DM predictor (HR > 1, p = 0.004) when analyzing only VMAT patients with small and spherical tumors (i.e., sphericity > 0.5).

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