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. 2016 Jun 15;43(7):4209–4262. doi: 10.1118/1.4947547

FIG. 2.

FIG. 2.

(a) An IMRT process tree, (b) magnified view of the initial treatment planning directive branch. The red numbers indicate (hazard ranking) the most hazardous 20%–25% of the steps as indicated by high risk priority number values. Steps with high severity hazards are shown in green. [See text and Sec. VIII (Ref. 64) for details.] A hazard is something that can cause harm. A risk is the chance, high or low, that any hazard will actually cause somebody harm.