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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 15.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2011 Dec 28;83(4):1132–1140. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.09.045

Table 1.

Patient characteristics and SBRT treatment details.

Patients (n) 30
Age [median (range)] (y) 72 (45 – 83)
Gender: male/female (n) 19/11
Diagnosis (n)
 Primary liver cancer 15
 Liver metastases 15
No. GTV [median (range)] (n) 2 (1 – 5)
GTV volume [mean (range)] (cc) 162 (4 – 707)
Motion management (n)
 Free-breathing 11
 Abdominal compression plate 19
Planned fluoroscopy motion [mean (range)] (mm) 9 (2 – 17)
PTV [mean (max)] (mm)
 Left 6 (13)
 Right 5 (7)
 Anterior 7 (20)
 Posterior 5 (8)
 Superior 5 (6)
 Inferior 12 (23)
No. beams, excluding segments [median (range)] (n) 6 (4 – 15)
Liver NTCP [mean (range)] (%) 1.8 (0 – 15.2)
Prescribed dose in 6 fractions [mean (range)] (Gy) 39 (27 – 60)

Abbreviations: GTV=gross tumour volumes; PTV=planning target volume; NTCP=normal tissue complication probability (biologically corrected to 2 Gy/fraction).