Table 5.

Summary of the test performed for pediatric female whole body patient models to determine the level of minimum equivalency between each method and the detailed TCM method, which is considered the reference. For example, in the case of pediatric whole body lung, the mean of fixed tube current method, and detailed TCM method are equivalent within 29% with a significant p-value (0.0001) <0.05, indicating that the alternative hypothesis is accepted. However, this minimum equivalence limit (29%) is much larger compared to the longitudinal approximated TCM method (2%).

	Minimum equivalence limit to detailed TCM method
	Longitudinal		Fixed tube
	approx. TCM		current
Population	(%)	p-value	(%)	p-value
Pediatric female whole body-breasts	2	0.0214	29	<0.0001
Pediatric female whole body-lungs	1	0.0007	27	<0.0001