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Published in final edited form as: Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2016 Feb 16;95(1):279–286. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2016.02.032

Table 1.

Mean and standard error for RBE_S-weighted dose (D) to organs near the target for carbon (c) versus proton (p) plans for 9 HL patients. Sig. indicates whether a ratio was significantly different than 1.

Organ	D_p [Gy (RBE)]	D_c [Gy (RBE)]	D_c/D_p	Sig.	p
Breast	3.40 ± 0.85	2.15 ± 0.65	0.63	yes	0.004
Heart	6.06 ± 1.51	4.42 ± 1.32	0.73	yes	0.004
Lung	6.45 ± 0.98	4.80 ± 0.76	0.74	yes	0.004
Esophagus	11.10 ± 2.46	9.79 ± 2.32	0.88	no	0.18
Cord	0.40 ± 0.11	0.84 ± 0.16	2.1	no	0.508