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For the Conventional approach, a single 12-beam non-coplanar IMRT plan with individualized beam angles was generated for each of the 20 included patients. In Per-fraction planning, four fraction plans were generated for each patient. For each fraction, a different set of patient-specific 12-beam configurations could be automatically selected. Per-fraction plans were sequentially generated by adding dose to already generated fraction plan(s). For each fraction, the cumulative- and fraction dose were simultaneously optimized, allowing some minor constraint violations in fraction doses, but not in cumulative.\n                    <jats:italic>Main results<\/jats:italic>\n                    . In the Per-fraction approach, on average 32.9 \u00b1 3.1 [29;39] unique beams per patient were used. PTV doses in the separate Per-fraction plans were acceptable and highly similar to those in Conventional plans, while also fulfilling all OAR hard constraints. When comparing total cumulative doses, Per-fraction planning showed improved bladder sparing for all patients with reductions in Dmean of 22.6% (\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    = 0.0001) and in D1cc of 2.0% (\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    = 0.0001), reductions in patient volumes receiving 30% and 50% of the prescribed dose of 54.7% and 6.3%, respectively, and a 3.1% lower rectum Dmean (\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    = 0.007). Rectum D1cc was 4.1% higher (\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    = 0.0001) and Urethra dose was similar.\n                    <jats:italic>Significance<\/jats:italic>\n                    . In this proof-of-concept paper, Per-fraction planning resulted in several dose improvements in healthy tissues compared to the Conventional single-plan approach, for similar PTV dose. By keeping the number of beams per fraction the same as in Conventional planning, reported dosimetric improvements could be obtained without increase in fraction durations. 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