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Table 4 Shifts of a head phantom as preset by the robotic couch and as detected by both ExacTrac and CBCT (N = 24, resp. 8 per axis)

From: Stereoscopic X-ray imaging, cone beam CT, and couch positioning in stereotactic radiotherapy of intracranial tumors: preliminary results from a cross-modality pilot installation

Discrepancy between …

… ExacTrac and robotic couch

… CBCT and robotic couch

… ExacTrac and CBCT

 lateral

0.0 ± 0.5 (p = 0.9)

0.0 ± 0.6 (p = 1.0)

0.0 ± 0.1 (p = 0.5)

 longitudinal

0.4 ± 0.3 (p = 0.1)

0.3 ± 0.3 (p = 0.1)

0.1 ± 0.1 (p = 0.3)

 vertical

0.0 ± 0.4 (p = 0.9)

0.0 ± 0.4 (p = 1.0)

0.0 ± 0.1 (p = 0.5)

 radial

0.7 ± 0.3 (p = 0.007)

0.7 ± 0.3 (p = 0.006)

0.1 ± 0.0 (p < 0.001)

  1. All units are in mm, average ± SD (p values from two-sided t-test)