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Published in final edited form as: Phys Med Biol. 2012 Jan 6;57(3):591–608. doi: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/3/591

Table 2.

Constraints of the robust method for the base of skull case. The “weighted” scenario is the nominal scenario with weight 0.2 and the other 8 scenarios with weight 0.1.

Base of skull (Rx = 74 Gy)
Structures	Type	Scenarios	Bound (in Gy)
CTV	min	all	≥ 70
CTV	max	all	≤ 80
CTV	min	nominal	≥ 74
CTV	max	nominal	≤ 77
CTV	overdose ramp (d^pres = Rx)	nominal	≤ 0:5
brainstem	max	all	≤ 60
brainstem	mean	nominal	≤ 10
brainstem	mean	weighted (see caption)	≤ 11
optic chiasm	max	all	≤ 62
brain, brain-CTV, R/L temporal lobe	mean	nominal	≤ 30
all structures	max	all	≤ 90