Radiation Oncology

Table 4 The differences in MD between the volumes delineated based on clips, seroma and both clips and seroma

From: Interobserver variability in the delineation of the tumour bed using seroma and surgical clips based on 4DCT scan for external-beam partial breast irradiation

patients	MD _c	MD _s	MD _c+s
1	0.30	0.41	0.29
2	0.37	0.51	0.39
3	0.37	0.45	0.39
4	0.31	0.69	0.49
5	0.38	0.46	0.39
6	0.38	0.58	0.37
7	0.40	0.44	0.30
8	0.34	0.46	0.49
9	0.36	0.50	0.34
10	0.36	0.63	0.46
11	0.43	0.52	0.40
12	0.45	0.59	0.51
13	0.37	0.37	0.39
14	0.29	0.43	0.30
15	0.32	0.61	0.44
16	0.31	0.41	0.39
17	0.18	0.31	0.55
18	0.24	0.48	0.42
19	0.25	0.30	0.34
20	0.27	0.63	0.45
\( \overline{x} \)±s	0.33 ± 0.07	0.49 ± 0.11	0.40 ± 0.07

Abbreviations: MD_C, the ratio between the intersection volume and the union volume based on clips; MD_S, the ratio between the intersection volume and the union volume based on seroma; MD_C+S, the ratio between the intersection volume and the union volume based on both clips and seroma.

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