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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 21.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Med Biol. 2015 Apr 24;60(10):3927–3937. doi: 10.1088/0031-9155/60/10/3927

Table 1.

Dose intervals at which statistical equivalence test indicates that the differences between DM and DV derived DVIs are statistically significant (p<0.05). The average doses or volumes are derived from the DM optimization.

Dose Volume
Index		 Average Value of
Tallied Index
[cGy or cm3]		 Statistical Equivalence
Interval
[cGy or cm3]		 Percent change for
equivalency
(% Sparing)
[%]
heart DI33% 981.3 79 8.0
cord DI1% 1366.0 571 41.2
esophagus DI50% 443.8 81 18.3
lungs DI20% 2421 126 5.2
lungs DI30% 1708.5 93 5.4
Isovolume 2000 cGy 819.1 31 3.8
Isovolume 3000 cGy 510.8 17.1 3.5