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Published in final edited form as: Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2009 Jun 18;75(1):294–301. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.03.043

Table 3.

Comparison of plans to WBRT at DIBH to evaluate the impact of the geometry. Dose values are in Gray.

	WBRT - DIBH	APBI 3DCRT - FB		APBI 3DCRT - DIBH		APBI IMRT - DIBH

N = 10	Dose (Gy)	Dose (Gy)	P-value	Dose (Gy)	P-value	Dose (Gy)	P-value

PTV
Maximum	47.9	44.6^*	0.0185	44.9^*	0.0237	41.5^*	0.0004
Mean	41.2	40.6	0.2388	40.9	0.6497	39.1^*	0.0018
%Vol>95%d	97.3	99.6^*	0.0027	99.1	0.0866	99.2	0.0689

Heart
Maximum	31.5	8.2^*	0.0016	4.8^*	0.0001	3.8^*	<0.0001
Mean	1.0	0.5	0.1869	0.4	0.0722	0.5	0.1655

LAD
Maximum	15.8	6.1	0.0810	2.2^*	0.0103	1.8^*	0.0083
Mean	4.2	1.9	0.2247	0.7^*	0.0496	0.8	0.0527

Left lung
Maximum	41.9	38.1^*	0.0033	35.5^*	0.0007	35.4^*	0.0009
Mean	4.9	2.9^*	0.0070	1.7^*	0.0003	1.8^*	0.0003
V20	11.2	4.1^*	0.0010	1.7^*	<0.0001	1.4^*	<0.0001
V10	14.7	9.2^*	0.0284	4.6^*	0.0004	4.0^*	<0.0001
V5	18.7	14.9	0.1847	8.5^*	0.0020	8.2^*	0.0008

Right Breast
Maximum	6.8	3.2	0.0580	2.9^*	0.0415	1.8^*	0.0305
Mean	0.1	0.1	0.1718	0.1^*	0.0402	0.1	0.9487

Denotes p-value <0.05.