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. 2015 Mar 25;88(1049):20140698. doi: 10.1259/bjr.20140698

Table 2.

Spearman's rank correlation coefficients between gamma passing rates and Slh

Metric 2%/2 mm
1%/2 mm
2%/1 mm
rs p-value rs p-value rs p-value
Global gamma passing rates
S0–0.4 0.479 0.002 0.674 <0.001 0.301 0.059
S0.4–0.8 −0.458 0.003 −0.644 <0.001 −0.258 0.108
S0.8–1.2 −0.511 0.001 −0.690 <0.001 −0.338 0.033
S1.2–1.6 −0.489 0.001 −0.698 <0.001 −0.319 0.045
S1.6–2.0 −0.471 0.002 −0.662 <0.001 −0.283 0.076
 Mean speed −0.470 0.002 −0.674 <0.001 −0.283 0.077
 SD speed −0.417 0.007 −0.611 <0.001 −0.220 0.172
Local gamma passing rates
S0–0.4 0.540 <0.001 0.584 <0.001 0.522 0.001
S0.4–0.8 −0.489 0.001 −0.554 <0.001 −0.404 0.010
S0.8–1.2 −0.526 <0.001 −0.559 <0.001 −0.512 0.001
S1.2–1.6 −0.508 0.001 −0.546 <0.001 −0.489 0.001
S1.6–2.0 −0.498 0.001 −0.553 <0.001 −0.491 0.001
 Mean speed −0.536 <0.001 −0.579 <0.001 −0.515 0.001
 SD speed −0.420 0.007 −0.475 0.002 −0.413 0.008

rs, Spearman's rho; SD, standard deviation; Slh, the proportion of number of control points with multileaf collimator speeds ranging from l to h cm s−2.