Comparison of breast simultaneous integrated boost (SIB) radiotherapy techniques

Radiation Oncology

Table 4 Treatment efficiency multi-comparison analysis for all studied techniques (mean ± SD). Mean values with ^ǂ symbol demonstrate that the corresponding technique did not pass the normality test. Friedman test of significance (p < 0.05) was used in these cases; otherwise, repeated measures ANOVA significance test was used

N = 12	T-2F	T-NC	T-VMAT	f-VMAT
MU	425 ± 72^{ǂ b}	411 ± 73^{ǂ b}	442 ± 58^b	1016 ± 152^a
Estimated Treatment Time (min)	3.3 ± 0.7^ab	3.3 ± 0.6^{ǂ b}	2.8 ± 0.5^{ǂ ab}	2.9 ± 1.5^{ǂ a}

^a,b,c Values having the same superscript in the same horizontal line are not significantly different

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