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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2020 Dec 16;109(5):1606–1618. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2020.12.015

Table 3:

Number of times a constraint was violated in an adaptive plan.

Case 1 Case 2 Case 3 Case 4 Case 5 Case 6 Case 7 Case 8 Case 9 Case 10
Treatment site Larynx (true vocal cord) Larynx (true vocal cord) Oropharynx (base of tongue) Orbit Hypopharynx (pyriform sinus) Oropharynx (tonsil) Nasosinus Larynx (true vocal cord) Oral cavity (oral tongue) Oropharynx (tonsil)
Total number of MR-linac fractions 24 24 26 4 25 29 28 27 33 33
CTV (high dose) 0 2 2 0 0 2 1 2 3 2
PTV (high dose) 1 6
Parotid (ipsi) 26* 0 0 29* 0 31* 7
Parotid (contra) 26* 0 0 0 0 2 0
Cochlea (ipsi) 0 0 0 15 0 14 2
Cochlea (contra) 0 0 0 0 4 0 0
Brainstem 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Spinal cord 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Carotid (contra) 0 0 0
Brachial plexus (ipsi) 1 2 0
Brachial plexus (contra) 7 0 0

constraint was not used for optimization

*

constraint was not met in initial reference plan

constraint was not met in summation plan