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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2016 Aug 31;96(5):1078–1086. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2016.08.036

Table 2.

Hard Dose Constraints for Initial and Adaptive Plans, with Recorded Organ-at-risk Violation Metrics for Application of Non-adaptive Plans (PI) to MR Localization Images

Degree of Violation Degree of Violation
Abdominal OAR Constraint # of PI constraint violations Mean (Std Dev) Median Range Thorax OAR Constraint # of PI constraint violations Mean (Std Dev) Median Range
Uninvolved liver (liver - GTV) 700cc < 20 Gy 1 NA NA NA Lungs (combined) V12.5Gy ≤ 1500 cc 0 NA NA NA
V25Gy < 33% 0 NA NA NA V13.5Gy ≤1000 cc 0 NA NA NA
Mean < 20 Gy 1 1 Gy 1 Gy 1 Gy Esophagus max V32Gy ≤ 0.5 cc 5 1.5 ± 0.9cc 1.6 cc 0.3–2.8 cc
Duodenum max V35Gy < 0.5 cc 7 5.7 ± 4.6 cc 5.3 cc 0.4–12.4 cc Heart/Pericardium V32Gy ≤ 15 cc 1 0.4 cc 0.4 cc 0.4 cc
Stomach max V33Gy < 0.5 cc 6 8.7 ± 14.9 cc 3.7 cc 0.5–38.9 cc Great vessels, non- adjacent wall V47Gy < 10 cc 0 NA NA NA
Small bowel max V30Gy ≤ 0.5 cc 2 1.6 ± 0.4 cc 1.57 cc 1.26–1.88 cc
Large bowel max V35Gy ≤ 0.5 cc 2 0.2 ± 0.3 cc 0.24 cc 0.04–0.44cc Trachea and ipsilateral bronchus, non-adjacent wall V10Gy < 0.2 cc 6 0.5 ± 0.4cc 0.4 cc 0.08–1.05 cc
Cord V25Gy < 0.5cc 0 NA NA NA
Kidney (combined) Mean < 18 Gy 0 NA NA NA Cord V8Gy < 1 cc 0 NA NA NA