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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Radiother Oncol. 2013 Sep 14;109(1):112–116. doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2013.07.015

Table 3.

Over-coverage (volume of ITV3D that is not included in ITV4D) as a function of the margin expansion used to compute the ITV3D from the FDG-avid nodal target volume in un-gated PET (NTV3D).

Patient Node Over-coverage for Given NTV3D->ITV3D Margin (cm3)
0 mm 5 mm 8 mm 10 mm 13 mm
1 1 0.02 4.1 10 16 28
2 0.55 10 22 35 59
2 1 0.15 7.0 15 24 39
2 0.02 3.0 7.9 13 23
3 1 0.07 3.4 8.5 14 24
2 0.09 3.9 9.4 15 26
4 1 0.48 10 21 31 49
2 0.03 5.3 12 18 31
3 0.03 4.6 11 18 31
5 1 0.00 7.2 16 25 42
2 0.00 30 64 92 140