Table 3.

The root mean square (RMS) deviations between the cumulative DVHs derived using a full dose (TPS) calculation and range-corrected dose approximation method under various simulations. The first two tables are from setup error (in the anterior-posterior direction) and weekly simulations of lung patient. For the sake of simplicity, for both prostate and HN cases, only the worst passing rate observed during weekly simulation is shown (week1 for prostate and week6 for HN)

	CTV		Lung_R		Esophagus		Lung_L		Cord
Lung Setup error (mm)	Δ cDVH (%vol)		Δ cDVH (%vol)		Δ cDVH (%vol)		Δ cDVH (%vol)		Δ cDVH (%vol)
	RMS (%)	Max (%)	RMS (%)	Max (%)	RMS (%)	Max (%)	RMS (%)	Max (%)	RMS (%)	Max (%)
−8	0.4	1.9	0.3	0.6	1.9	3.4	0.4	1.4	1.1	2.5
−6	0.3	1.5	0.3	0.6	1.5	2.3	0.5	1.2	0.9	2.2
−4	0.4	2.2	0.3	0.6	1.1	2.0	0.4	0.9	0.8	1.8
−2	0.4	2.1	0.2	0.7	0.9	1.6	0.3	0.6	0.5	1.3
0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2	0.6	3.3	0.2	1.0	0.4	0.8	0.3	0.6	0.2	0.5
4	0.7	3.5	0.3	1.4	1.4	2.5	0.4	1.0	0.3	0.4
6	0.6	3.7	0.3	1.6	2.0	3.3	0.5	1.2	0.3	0.6
8	0.7	4.0	0.4	1.6	1.8	3.1	0.6	1.5	0.3	0.7
	CTV		Lung_R		Esophagus		Lung_L		Cord
Site (Week)	Δ cDVH (%vol)		Δ cDVH (%vol)		Δ cDVH (%vol)		Δ cDVH (%vol)		Δ cDVH (%vol)
	RMS (%)	Max (%)	RMS (%)	Max (%)	RMS (%)	Max (%)	RMS (%)	Max (%)	RMS (%)	Max (%)
Lung (0)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Lung (1)	0.5	2.8	0.2	1.2	1.0	2.3	0.4	1.0	1.0	1.6
Lung (2)	1.0	6.1	0.4	1.3	1.6	3.3	0.5	0.7	0.2	0.5
Lung (3)	1.0	6.8	0.6	0.9	0.8	3.0	0.4	0.6	0.3	0.7
Lung (4)	1.0	6.0	0.4	0.6	1.4	5.7	0.4	0.8	0.1	0.3
Lung (5)	1.0	6.6	0.6	1.2	1.9	7.6	0.9	1.4	0.3	0.7
Lung (6)	1.4	5.0	0.6	1.0	1.2	5.9	0.8	1.4	0.4	0.8
	STV		Bladder		Rectum		Ant Rectal Wall		Femoral Heads
Prostate (1)	1.1	7.2	1.0	1.7	0.6	0.9	0.7	1.8	0.2	0.5
	CTV1		Brain stem		L Optic Nerve		R Optic Nerve		L Parotid
HN (6)	0.8	4.8	1.6	6.4	1.6	4.2	2.9	6.2	3.8	7.9