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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 21.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Med Biol. 2011 Jun 30;56(14):4499–4515. doi: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/14/017

Table 2.

The stopping power ratio (SPR) sensitivity ratio factors RL and RH calculated for all three x-ray beam pairs. The ratio factors were calculated based on the error propagation, as shown in section 2.5. The values were averaged of all tissue types within each tissue group.

Energy Pairs Tissue Types
RL(dρs,x/ρs,xdμx,L/μx,L)
RH(dρs,x/ρs,xdμx,H/μx,H)
kV-kV Soft Tissues 3.82 4.82
Bone Tissues 4.85 5.84
All Tissues 4.19 5.18
kV-MV Soft Tissues 0.34 1.34
Bone Tissues 0.21 1.21
All Tissues 0.30 1.30
MV-MV Soft Tissues 6.36 7.35
Bone Tissues 2.63 3.63
All Tissues 5.38 6.34