Table 3.

Absolute changes in mean BED, mean NTD and mean delivered dose for the tumors, mean BED, mean NTD, mean delivered dose, and V20 for the total lung and ipsilateral lung in plans 2-4 compared with plan 1 averaged over the 12 patients.

		Plan 1 as reference
		Plan 2	Plan 3	Plan 4
Tumor	BED (Gy)	-4.0±6.2 (p=0.05)	0.9±7.6 (p=0.69)	1.0±7.2 (p=0.63)
	NTD (Gy)	-3.3±5.1 (p=0.05)	0.7±6.3 (p=0.69)	0.9±6.0 (p=0.63)
	Mean dose (Gy)	-0.7±1.1 (p=0.05)	0.2±1.4 (p=0.70)	0.2±1.3 (p=0.62)
Lung	BED (Gy)	-1.9±1.2 (p<0.01)	-3.1±1.6 (p<0.01)	-3.5±2.1 (p<0.01)
	NTD (Gy)	-1.6±1.0 (p<0.01)	-2.6±1.3 (p<0.01)	-2.9±1.8 (p<0.01)
	Mean dose (Gy)	-0.8±0.5 (p<0.01)	-1.5±0.8 (p<0.01)	-1.6±1.0 (p<0.01)
	V20 (%)	-1.5±1.0 (p<0.01)	-2.7±1.4 (p=0.01)	-2.8±1.8 (p<0.01)
Ipsilateral Lung	BED (Gy)	-3.4±2.0 (p<0.01)	-5.4±2.9 (p<0.01)	-6.2±3.9 (p<0.01)
	NTD (Gy)	-2.8±1.6 (p<0.01)	-4.5±2.4 (p<0.01)	-5.2±3.3 (p<0.01)
	Mean dose (Gy)	-0.9±1.3 (p=0.04)	-2.1±1.3 (p<0.01)	-2.5±1.9 (p<0.01)
	V20 (%)	-2.7±1.7 (p<0.01)	-4.9±2.6 (p<0.01)	-5.2±3.7 (p<0.01)