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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2009 Mar 26;74(2):593–601. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.12.069

Table 2.

Required margin for random component of respiration, mid-ventilation aperture plan.

Required Respiration Margin, MVA (cm)
Patient LR AP Sup Inf Iter
1 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.5 2
2 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.3 2
3 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.6 2
4 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.2 1
5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 1
6 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.3 2
7 0.1 −0.1 0.2 0.0 1
8 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 1
9 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 1
10 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 1
11 0.1 −0.1 0.2 0.1 1
12 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1 1
13 0.1 0.0 0.3 0.0 1
14 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 1
15 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 1
17 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.4 1
18 0.1 −0.3 0.0 0.2 2
Mean 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.2

LR – mean margin in the left-right direction, AP – mean margin in the anterior-posterior direction, Sup – margin in the superior direction, Inf – margin in the inferior direction, Iter – required number of iterations to achieve minimum target coverage with the cumulative dose.