Radiation Oncology

Table 3 Correlation between planned and recalculated values for the lung volume receiving 20 Gy, 10 Gy and the mean lung dose.

From: Developing and evaluating stereotactic lung RT trials: what we should know about the influence of inhomogeneity corrections on dose

	Unit density		EPL
Parameter	Correlation	R²-value	Correlation	R²-value
V_{20 Gy}	1.12·V_{20 Gy, planned} - 0.24	0.994	0.85·V_{20 Gy, planned} - 0.35	0.957
V_{10 Gy}	1.08·V_{10 Gy, planned} - 0.05	0.996	0.92·V_{10 Gy, planned} - 0.07	0.979
MLD	1.11·MLD_planned -	0.998	0.90·MLD_planned	0.999

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