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. 2011 Jan 20;38(2):820–829. doi: 10.1118/1.3533897

Table 4.

Average and standard deviation of the percent coverage of each partially irradiated organ and the correlation coefficient resulting from the exponential regression relating nD¯P,O to perimeter.

Organ Correlation coefficient Average percent coverage Standard deviation of percent coverage
Colon 0.94 84 8
Small intestine 0.62 77 21
Heart 0.51 53 19
Ovaries 0.52 40 55
Uterus 0.60 39 53
Lung 0.56 34 11
Esophagus 0.29 32 12
Glandular breast tissue 0.02 31 41
Skina 0.29 26 9
Muscle tissuea 0.63 24 5
Red bone marrowa 0.70 21 4
Bone surfacea 0.67 22 4
Bladder 0.56 9 19
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Average and standard deviation of the percent coverage is artificially high because a portion of Frank, Visible Human, and Donna’s actual organ anatomy was truncated when partial-body models were generated.