Table 4.

Exclusions of data from clinical studies post-acquisition.

Author	All Data included?	Size of Study	What Was Excluded?	Why?
Carter (1998) [35]	No	4 patients 5 treatments	Not stated	Artefacts
Craciunescu (2001) [33]	Yes	2 patients	-	-
Craciunescu (2009) [31]	No	10 patients 40 treatments	4 patients 12 treatments	Lack of MR information in HT treatments performed outside the MR scanner, image/motion artefacts, uncorrectable drift, impossibility to localize the fiber optic probes, missing/corrupted data files
Dadakova (2015) [32]	No	3 patients 20 treatments	1 patient 1 treatment	Susceptibility artefact in the ROI from air in rectum
Gellermann (2005) [36]	No	15 patients	Everything but 1 best session per patient	MR data sets incomplete and/or disturbed by technical reasons
Gellermann (2006) [21]	No	9 patients 30 treatments	15 treatments	Breakdown or malfunction of applicator, restlessness of the patient
Peller (2002) [28]	No	1 patient	“Data sets”	Artefacts
Stauffer (2009) [30]	No	10 patients	3 patients All except 12 treatments	Uncorrected field drift or inability to locate or correlate sensor positions or significant patient position shift early in treatment
Unsoeld (2020) [17]	No	24 patients	13 patients: 11 patients with abdominal and pelvic tumors; 1 patient with different time course of therapy; 1 patient without surgery	Breathing and intestinal motion artefacts in MRT data; pathological response is not comparable; lack of information on pathological response
Wu (2020) [34]	No	4 patients	2 patients	Bulk motion due to discomfort during treatment, ROI contained too much gas