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. 2020 Oct 31;32(1):63–73. doi: 10.1016/j.zemedi.2020.08.001

Table 1.

Dynamic dose computation with Monte-Carlo (MC) and pencil-beam (PB) algorithm for the example of patient ids 2 and 3. The nominal scenario (index “n”) and layered repainting (NRep = 5) have been considered. Resulting values and standard deviations are presented.

Patient id 2
PBn MCn PBLR5 MCLR5
CTV HI [%] 10.8 ± 1.5 11.1 ± 1.5 7.3 ± 1.5 7.1 ± 1.1
V107/95 [%] 8.6 ± 3.7 8.9 ± 3.4 2.3 ± 2.0 2.0 ± 1.8



OAR DL¯[GyRBE] 13.8 ± 0.1 13.8 ± 0.1 13.8 ± 0.1 13.8 ± 0.1
V42GyRBE [%] 17.4 ± 0.2 17.2 ± 0.2 17.4 ± 0.1 17.3 ± 0.1
V33GyRBE [%] 20.8 ± 0.1 20.7 ± 0.2 20.9 ± 0.1 20.8 ± 0.1
V<15GyRBE[cm3] 796.8 ± 2.5 795.8 ± 2.5 797.2 ± 1.6 795.6 ± 1.7
Patient id 3
PBn MCn PBLR5 PBLR5
CTV HI [%] 8.69 ± 1.18 8.70 ± 0.95 5.28 ± 0.59 5.05 ± 0.57
OU [%] 4.22 ± 2.01 4.47 ± 1.80 0.34 ± 0.30 0.35 ± 0.37



OAR DL¯[GyRBE] 19.82 ± 0.05 19.96 ± 0.06 19.82 ± 0.02 19.96 ± 0.02
V42GyRBE [%] 25.41 ± 0.08 25.43 ± 0.09 25.39 ± 0.04 25.43 ± 0.05
V33GyRBE [%] 29.46 ± 0.08 29.54 ± 0.09 29.44 ± 0.25 29.55 ± 0.05
V<15GyRBE[cm3] 567.36 ± 0.79 564.12 ± 0.81 566.94 ± 0.61 563.84 ± 0.66