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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Nov 15.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2018 Jun 1;102(4):1265–1275. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2018.05.049

Table 2.

Population-level model parameters and standard deviations describing the expected dose-function response in well-perfused voxels at baseline (95% confidence intervals)


RT modality/time point N E[αj] = α sd[αj] E[μj] = μ sd[μj]

Conventional RT/Mid-Tx 54 0.22 (0.16–0.27) 0.21 (0.17–0.26) 9.8 (4.1–15.5) 17.9 (13.9–23.1)
Conventional RTOMonth Post-Tx 37 0.72 (0.62–0.81) 0.28 (0.22–0.35) 18.2 (14.4–22.1) 10.9 (8.2–14.4)
Conventional RT/lYear Post-Tx 19 1.00 (0.80–1.21) 0.44 (0.28–0.69) 21.8 (8.9–34.7) 28.1 (19.8–40.0)
SBRT/Mid-Tx 20 0.24 (0.12–0.37) 0.27 (0.18–0.40) 45.0 (28.9–61.2) 35.3 (24.5–50.9)
SBRT/3Month Post-Tx 14 0.56 (0.46–0.66) 0.19 (0.13–0.27) 13.9 (4.4–23.3) 17.0 (10.8–26.7)
SBRT/1 Year Post-Tx 7 0.86 (0.56–1.15) 0.39 (0.23–0.67) 21.8 (18.3–25.3) -

RT modality/time point γ σ λ

Conventional RT/Mid-Tx 5.4 (4–0-6.8) 0.22 (0.19–0.26) −0.11 (−0.13 to −0.08)
Conventional RTOMonth Post-Tx 9.6 (8.5–10.7) 0.32 (0.24–0.41) −0.13 (−0.17 to −0.10)
Conventional RT/1Year Post-Tx 10.3 (8.7–12.0) 0.16 (0.10–0.25) −0.03 (−0.10 to 0.03)
SBRT/Mid-Tx 14.0 (11.5–16.5) 0.10 (0.09–0.11) −0.06 (−0.07 to −0.04)
SBRTOMonth Post-Tx 12.1 (9.9–14.4) 0.11 (0.10–0.13) −0.01 (−0.04 to 0.01)
SBRT/1Year Post-Tx 20.4 (16.4–24.3) 0.12 (0.09–0.15) 0.03 (−0.03 to 0.08)

Abbreviations: 1Year Post-Tx = 1 year post-treatment; 3Month Post-Tx = 3 months post-treatment; Mid-Tx = midcourse treatment; SBRT Z stereotactic body radiation therapy.

Models with “-“ listed in the sd[μj] column were unable to converge using patient-specific midpoints; thus, the same population-level midpoint was given to all patient in that cohort.