Table 6.
Brain regions showed significant differences in RTdose images between RTtechs (IMRT vs. VMAT) in T4 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 | 7,381 | −7.21 | −24 | −88 | −46 |
| Occipital Lobe | 2,594 | −5.39 | −26 | −92 | −26 |
| Frontal Lobe | 2,399 | −3.83 | 30 | 62 | −16 |
| Cerebellum Anterior Lobe | 1,969 | −5.88 | −48 | −44 | −30 |
| Temporal Lobe | 1,940 | −6.64 | −58 | −54 | −24 |
| Pons | 1,060 | −6.13 | 2 | −32 | −40 |
| Limbic Lobe | 981 | −4.27 | −38 | −16 | −36 |
| Sub-lobar | 719 | −4.96 | −2 | −50 | −44 |
| Medulla | 452 | −6.41 | 0 | −46 | −52 |
| IMRT > VMAT | |||||
| None | |||||