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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 21.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Med Biol. 2013 Jan 21;58(4):887–902. doi: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/4/887

Table 4.

Differences between the dose delivered using the nominal tissue I-value and ±5% and ±10% the nominal value for different volume levels (95% and 10%) and the mean dose for the pancreas patient.

Target Volumes

+10% −5% +5% +10%
GTV 95% Volume 1.6% 0.9% −0.4% −1.3%
10% Volume 2.1% 0.9% −0.5% −1.6%
Mean 1.8% 0.9% −0.5% −1.4%

CTV 95% Volume 1.5% 0.8% −0.8% −1.3%
10% Volume 1.6% 0.7% −0.7% −1.5%
Mean 1.4% 0.8% −0.8% −1.4%

PTV 95% Volume −4.6% −2.1% 1.2% 1.9%
10% Volume 1.5% 0.7% −0.7% −1.4%
Mean −3.5% −1.7% 1.4% 3.0%

Organs at Risk

+10% −5% +5% +10%

Celiac 10% Volume 1.8% 1.2% −0.4% −1.2%
Mean 1.6% 1.1% −0.8% −1.7%

Duodenum 10% Volume 1.4% 0.9% −0.6% −1.3%
Mean 0.0% −0.2% 0.1% 0.0%

SMA 10% Volume 0.7% 0.5% −0.9% −2.2%
Mean 0.8% 0.5% 0.2% −0.8%

Porta Hepatis 10% Volume 1.8% 1.8% 0.0% −1.3%
Mean 1.4% 1.4% −0.3% −1.5%

Spinal Cord 10% Volume 1.5% 1.0% −0.9% −1.3%
Mean 1.5% 1.6% −2.0% −3.0%

Liver 10% Volume 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 5.4%
Mean −0.1% 0.0% 0.3% 0.4%

Stomach 10% Volume 1.3% 0.1% −0.1% −0.4%
Mean −3.4% −1.7% 1.4% 3.5%

Small Bowel 10% Volume 1.0% 0.5% −0.5% −1.0%
Mean −3.0% −1.5% 1.2% 2.1%

Large Bowel 10% Volume 1.1% 0.5% −0.5% −1.1%
Mean −1.7% −0.8% 0.9% 1.6%

L Kidney 10% Volume 1.0% 1.0% −0.8% −1.0%
Mean 1.0% 0.6% −0.3% −0.9%

R Kidney 10% Volume −0.2% 0.0% 1.8% 1.4%
Mean −2.6% −1.4% 1.3% 2.8%