Table 3.
Brain regions showed significant differences in RTdose images between RTtechs (IMRT vs. VMAT) in all patients in a two-sample t-test by using a permutation threshold-free cluster enhancement test (number of permutations = 5,000, FWE p < 0.05), voxel size: 2*2*2.
| Regions | Voxels | Peak T value | MNI coordinate | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x | y | z | |||
| IMRT < VMAT | |||||
| Cerebellum Posterior Lobe | 9,153 | −11.72 | 26 | −86 | −48 |
| Frontal Lobe | 4,264 | −5.31 | 14 | 38 | 2 |
| Occipital Lobe | 4,222 | −7.06 | 24 | −94 | −26 |
| Sub-lobar | 3,859 | −5.79 | −2 | −50 | −44 |
| Cerebellum Anterior Lobe | 2,067 | −6.81 | −18 | −66 | −34 |
| Limbic Lobe | 1,210 | −5.27 | 10 | 38 | 2 |
| Temporal Lobe | 993 | −5.68 | −58 | −54 | −24 |
| Medulla | 337 | −8.06 | 2 | −48 | −52 |
| Pons | 297 | −5.29 | 0 | −44 | −42 |
| IMRT > VMAT | |||||
| Temporal Lobe | 4,592 | 8.30 | −22 | 10 | −26 |
| Frontal Lobe | 3,212 | 9.27 | −12 | 12 | −26 |
| Limbic Lobe | 1,771 | 9.12 | 14 | 2 | −24 |
| Midbrain | 1,061 | 8.07 | −4 | −10 | −22 |
| Pons | 317 | 8.14 | 6 | −10 | −24 |
| Sub-lobar | 203 | 5.24 | 26 | −6 | −24 |