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. 2021 May 4;66(10):105005. doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/abf010

Table 2.

Quantitative evaluation of contour and dose deformation for different organs, expressed as mean ± standard deviation.

Volume of interest
Quantity CNS Ocular globes Lungs Liver Kidneys Bladder
DSC 0.95 ± 0.05 0.85 ± 0.04 0.96 ± 0.01 0.91 ± 0.03 0.83 ± 0.06 0.65 ± 0.16
JC 0.92 ± 0.08 0.74 ± 0.06 0.92 ± 0.02 0.83 ± 0.5 0.71 ± 0.08 0.50 ± 0.16
DTavg (mm) 0.7 ± 1.0 0.9 ± 0.4 0.8 ± 0.3 2.7 ± 1.1 2.5 ± 1.3 7.1 ± 3.8
ΔTR (mm) 2.9 ± 5.7 1.7 ± 0.8a 1.3 ± 0.7a 4.9 ± 2.7 7.0 ± 4.5a 9.6 ± 4.6
RDA 0.02 ± 0.04 0.04 ± 0.04 0.05 ± 0.05 0.06 ± 0.03 0.09 ± 0.06 0.29 ± 0.28
DOO 0.92 ± 0.07 0.75 ± 0.07 0.86 ± 0.05 0.81 ± 0.06 0.65 ± 0.09 0.36 ± 0.18
Number of subjects in analysis (no, %) 53 34 52 49 49 49
(100%) (64%) (98%) (92%) (92%) (92%)
Volume (ml), median (range) 1331 16 597 645 121 64
(29–1891) (10–21) (49–2834 (328–1632) (62–284) (10–350)
Mean organ dose (Gy), median (range) 23.6 26.2 3.5 6.7 5.2 1.1
(1.3–38.9) (0.2–35.9) (0–16.4) (1.1–25.0) (1.4–14.1) (0–16.3)

Note. DSC = dice similarity coefficient

JC = Jaccard coefficient

DTavg = average distance between surfaces

ΔTR = distance between centroids

RDA = relative difference of areas of DVHs

DOO = dose-organ overlap

CNS = brain and spinal canal.

a

For organs composed of two separate volumes, ΔTR reported is the maximum value of the individual sub-volumes.