Table 7.

Summary of the test performed for pediatric female chest patient models to determine the level of minimum equivalency between each method and the detailed TCM method, which is considered the reference standard. For example, in the case of pediatric female chest breasts, the mean of longitudinal approximated TCM method, and detailed TCM method are equivalent within 3% with a significant p-value (0.0391) <0.05, indicating that the alternative hypothesis is accepted.

	Minimum equivalence limit to detailed TCM method
	Longitudinal		Fixed tube
	approx. TCM		current
Population	(%)	p-value	(%)	p-value
Pediatric female chest-breasts	3	0.0391	2	0.0023
Pediatric female chest-lungs	2	<0.0001	2	<0.0001