TABLE III.

Absolute changes in full-adapt normal-tissue dose metrics compared to the no-adapt simulation. Average changes are listed below along with p-values resulting from paired t-tests comparing full-adapt and no-adapt metrics. Averages for the no-adapt simulation are listed in parentheses.

Patient changes in normal tissue doses for full-adapt treatment
	Cord max (cGy)	Mean lung dose (cGy)	Lung V20 (% vol)	Mean esophagus dose (cGy)	Heart D66 (cGy)	Heart D33 (cGy)
PT1	40	−48	−1.39	−415	−2	−3
PT1N	132	−20	−0.61	−111	1	−1
PT3L	259	−69	−1.12	−106	−3	−54
PT3LN	−560	−6	−0.15	−68	−5	−151
PT3R	−188	−106	−2.01	−128	−9	−128
PT3RN	−77	−117	−2.29	−55	−16	−320
PT4	−243	−37	0.69	−72	−43	−148
PT5	119	14	0.27	−2	0	0
PT6	−325	−43	−0.44	−144	−337	−280
PT8	−656	−162	−2.76	−186	−17	−49
PT9	−250	−115	−2.96	−2	−2	−22
PT9N	−231	−80	−0.7	66	1	12
PT14	−187	−92	−1.96	−159	−104	−170
PT14N	−91	−37	−0.7	−15	0	38
PT17	−8	−54	1.06	−294	−27	−80
PT17N	−656	−100	−1.72	−253	−14	−54
PT18	65	8	0	26	15	69
PT20	311	10	0.05	1	−7	−7
PT20N	−363	−64	−2.43	−231	−39	−104
PT21	104	−106	−2.22	−47	−87	−367
Mean change	−158	−65	−1.1	−117	−37	−99
(Mean no-adapt)	(4202)	(1350)	(23)	(2106)	(504)	(1174)
p	0.04	0.000 01	0.0006	0.0005	0.05	0.002