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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Phys. 2019 Apr 1;46(5):2330–2336. doi: 10.1002/mp.13502

Table 3.

Mean Hounsfield units (HU) inside the lung for the deep inspiration breath hold (DIBH) state, or HUDIBH, and for the end of exhalation (EE) state, or HUEE, and the absolute difference between them, followed by the HU difference (mean ± standard deviation) of deformable image registration both before and after density correction.

Patient no. HUDIBH HUEE |HUDIBHHUEE| HU difference
before density
correction
HU difference
after density
correction

1 −817 −702.5 114.5 58.9 ± 48.3 17.7 ± 34.7
2 −827.3 −671.1 156.2 63.7 ± 48.1 16.2 ± 34.1
3 −804 −627.1 176.9 67.9 ± 42.2 12 ± 28.6
4 −834.7 −765.6 69.1 49.3 ± 52.1 22.6 ± 40.8
5 −831.5 −735.4 96.1 60.7 ± 42.6 21 ± 37.2
6 −835.5 −711.8 123.7 65.0 ± 56.8 24.1 ± 42.6
7 −791.7 −702.4 89.3 51.4 ± 44.8 16.4 ± 32.5
8 −840 −796.4 43.6 33.8 ± 39.6 20.8 ± 37.2
9 −825.4 −780.4 45 39.4 ± 40.3 19.6 ± 34.5
10 −708.4 −611.4 97 50.5 ± 41.6 15.7 ± 31.7
11 −818.6 −726.5 92.1 50.0 ± 54.7 23.4 ± 42.5
12 −716 −588.5 127.5 46.3 ± 34.6 9.8 ± 23.2
13 −875.3 −773.8 101.5 66.6 ± 45.5 18.4 ± 36.1
14 −850.7 −741.2 109.5 59.7 ± 45.8 15.9 ± 33.5
Mean −812.6 −709.6 103 54.5 ± 45.5 18.1 ± 34.9