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. 2019 Jun 22;11:1–8. doi: 10.1016/j.phro.2019.06.001

Table 2.

Dose-volume histogram (DVH) comparison for all five pelvic cancer groups and comparison between two synthetic computed tomography (sCT) versions (sCT-CTCTref, mean relative difference (SD, standard deviation) [range]) including the planning target volume (PTV), rectum and bladder, gamma analysis, dose statistics (sCT-CTCT, mean relative difference (SD)), gamma-index pass-rates (mean (SD) [range]), and Hounsfield unit (HU) similarity evaluation (mean (SD) [range]). VX% indicates the volume, where the dose is higher than X% of the prescribed dose. For DVH comparison, the CTref is either prescribed dose (for DX%) or structure volume (for VX%). For dose statistics per volume and PTV mean dose, values are relative to respective value obtained using CT. MAE: mean absolute error, ME: mean error.

Pelvic lymph nodes (n = 15) Rectal cancer (n = 15) Gynecological cancer (n = 15) Prostate cancer, post-operative (n = 15) Prostate cancer, definitive (continuous HU, n = 15) Prostate cancer, definitive (bulk HU, n = 15)
DVH comparison
PTV
Mean 0.0 (0.4) [−0.5 − 0.8] 0.1 (0.3) [−0.4 − 0.6] −0.2 (0.4) [−1.0 − 0.3] 0.1 (0.3) [−0.4 − 0.6] 0.1 (0.2) [−0.2 − 0.4] 0.1 (0.2) [−0.5 − 0.3]
D2% 0.1 (0.5) [−0.6 − 1.2] 0.5 (0.6) [−0.7 − 2.0] 0.1 (0.4) [−0.7 − 0.7] 0.2 (0.6) [−0.4 − 2.0] 0.1 (0.2) [−0.3 − 0.4] 0.1 (0.2) [−0.6 − 0.4]
D50% 0.0 (0.4) [−0.6 − 0.8] 0.1 (0.3) [−0.3 − 0.5] −0.2 (0.4) [−1.1 − 0.3] 0.0 (0.3) [−0.4 − 0.4] 0.1 (0.2) [−0.3 − 0.4] 0.1 (0.2) [−0.6 − 0.4]
D98% −0.1 (0.3) [−0.9 − 0.5] 0.0 (0.4) [−1.0 − 0.4] −0.2 (0.5) [−1.1 − 0.8] 0.0 (0.3) [−0.5 − 0.5] 0.1 (0.3) [−0.3 − 0.5] 0.1 (0.2) [−0.5 − 0.4]



Rectum
V95% 0.1 (0.3) [−0.3 − 0.5] −0.2 (1.8) [−4.9 − 3.2] 0.1 (0.4) [−0.4 − 0.8] 0.1 (0.1) [−0.1 − 0.2] 0.1 (0.1) [−0.1 − 0.3]
V75% 0.0 (0.1) [−0.3 − 0.2] −0.3 (0.6) [−1.7 − 0.5] 0.0 (0.2) [−0.2 − 0.4] 0.0 (0.1) [−0.1 − 0.1] 0.0 (0.1) [−0.1 − 0.1]



Bladder
V95% −0.1 (0.3) [−0.6 − 0.7] 0.1 (0.5) [−0.6 − 1.2] −0.1 (0.9) [−2.8 − 0.9] −0.1 (0.2) [−0.3 − 0.3] 0.0 (0.2) [−0.7 − 0.3] 0.0 (0.2) [−0.7 − 0.2]
V75% 0.0 (0.2) [−0.2 − 0.5] 0.1 (0.2) [−0.2 − 0.6] 0.0 (0.2) [−0.2 − 0.3] 0.0 (0.1) [−0.1 − 0.1] 0.0 (0.1) [−0.3 − 0.2] 0.0 (0.1) [−0.4 − 0.1]



Gamma statistics (V10)
2%2mm 97.7 (0.7) [96.0 − 99.3] 96.2 (2.0) [91.3 − 97.8] 97.0 (1.5) [93.0 − 98.7] 98.0 (0.6) [96.7 − 98.8] 99.1 (0.5) [97.7 − 99.7] 98.9 (0.4) [97.8 − 99.6]



Dose statistics per volume
V10% 0.0 (0.2) [−0.5 − 0.2] 0.1 (0.3) [−0.5 − 0.5] −0.1 (0.3) [−0.9 − 0.3] −0.1 (0.2) [−0.4 − 0.2] −0.1 (0.2) [−0.4 − 0.2] −0.3 (0.2) [−0.6 − −0.1]



HU-similarity
MAE 49.1 (4.0) [42.8 − 54.3] 48.6 (2.8) [44.3 − 54.3] 47.7 (7.3) [37.1 − 67.5] 48.9 (3.6) [43.8 − 57.4] 47.4 (3.8) [42.6 − 54.2] 48.0 (5.7) [41.5 − 59.8]
ME −4.6 (4.1) [−9.7 − 3.6] −5.3 (4.6) [−14.1 − 2.2] −6.6 (3.1) [−13.4 − −1.4] −4.5 (3.4) [−9.9 − 1.1] −5.7 (4.2) [−14.7 − 3.5] 7.2 (4.1) [−0.9 − 16.1]