Table 2.
Mean values [range] of the dose–volume metrics under each algorithm
| Metrics | BPL | AAA | NC |
P-values |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BPL-AAA | BPL-NC | AAA-NC | ||||
| IC dose (Gy) | 48.2 [47.9–48.5] | 48.4 [43.1–49.6] | 44.9 [41.7–48.2] | 0.464 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
| PTV D95 (Gy) | 45.7 [40.9–46.8] | 42.3 [36.1–46.3] | 41.7 [37.9–45.4] | <0.001 | <0.001 | 0.034 |
| PTV Min (Gy) | 42.9 [36.2–45.3] | 39.2 [30.9–43.4] | 39.3 [33.5–43.7] | <0.001 | <0.001 | 0.726 |
| PTV Mean (Gy) | 47.7 [46.9–48.4] | 45.6 [38.8–49.1] | 44.4 [41.1–47.1] | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
IC dose, the dose at the isocenter; PTV D95, the dose that covers 95% of the PTV; PTV Min, the minimum dose of the PTV; PTV Mean, the mean dose of the PTV. The other abbreviations are as in Fig. 1.