Table 5.
Brain regions showed significant differences in RTdose images between RTtechs (IMRT vs. VMAT) in T3 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 | 4,429 | −8.87 | 30 | −86 | −48 |
| Occipital Lobe | 551 | −4.62 | 24 | −94 | −26 |
| Cerebellum Anterior Lobe | 83 | −4.24 | 22 | −66 | −34 |
| Medulla | 53 | −5.27 | 2 | −48 | −52 |
| IMRT > VMAT | |||||
| Temporal Lobe | 5,059 | 7.67 | 30 | 18 | −26 |
| Frontal Lobe | 2,941 | 7.66 | 16 | 12 | −26 |
| Limbic Lobe | 2,012 | 8.01 | −14 | 2 | −24 |
| Midbrain | 1,317 | 7.39 | 4 | 10 | −22 |
| Occipital Lobe | 1,201 | 3.82 | 0 | −94 | 18 |
| Pons | 412 | 7.39 | −6 | −10 | −24 |
| Cerebellum Anterior Lobe | 336 | 3.68 | 12 | −30 | −18 |
| Sub-lobar | 197 | 6.22 | −22 | −6 | −24 |