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. 2019 Jul 16;9:10308. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-46620-y

Table 1.

Voxel-level dose rate errors (mean ± std) of static patient images (n = 80) and their differences to the ground truth were statistically analyzed with paired t-test.

Meanvoxel-leveldose%difference=1n|MethodnDMCn§DMCn|/n×100
Method VSV Deep-dose
Mean ± Std (%) Mean ± Std (%)
Gallbladder wall 1.38 ± 1.37 2.13 ± 1.70
NS NS
Heart wall 5.83 ± 2.16 1.88 ± 1.27
p < 0.005 NS
Kidney 1.44 ± 1.14 0.86 ± 0.67
NS NS
Liver 1.13 ± 0.68 1.10 ± 0.67
NS NS
Lung 57.09 ± 2.07 1.41 ± 1.29
p < 0.001 p < 0.05
Pancreas 1.05 ± 0.98 1.47 ± 1.21
NS NS
Spleen 0.94 ± 0.68 0.85 ± 0.61
p < 0.01 NS
Stomach wall 4.01 ± 2.02 2.01 ± 1.61
p < 0.05 NS
Whole-body (avg) 9.97 ± 1.79 2.54 ± 2.09

The degree of significance is reported in the below of the corresponding differences (NS = nonsignificant).

*Method: VSV or Deep-dose (CNN). §DMC: direct Monte Carlo simulation.