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Table 2 The mean, median, standard deviation (STD) and range ([min, max]) of the absolute difference in the inter-marker distances (IDs) of the precisely located FMs between CT and MRI for all the single observers and for all the five observers

From: Evaluation of gold fiducial marker manual localisation for magnetic resonance-only prostate radiotherapy

Sequence

Observer

Mean

Median

STD

Range

Single

1

0.8

0.6

0.7

[0.1, 3.1]

 

2

0.6

0.5

0.5

[0.0, 2.5]

 

3

0.7

0.6

0.5

[0.0, 2.1]

 

4

0.7

0.6

0.6

[0.1, 2.9]

 

5

0.7

0.5

0.6

[0.1, 2.5]

 

All

0.7

0.6

0.6

[0.0, 3.1]

Multiple

1

0.7

0.4

0.6

[0.0, 2.7]

 

2

0.6

0.4

0.6

[0.0, 3.0]

 

3

0.7

0.5

0.7

[0.0, 2.5]

 

4

0.7

0.5

0.6

[0.0, 2.8]

 

5

0.7

0.6

0.5

[0.0, 2.5]

 

All

0.6

0.5

0.6

[0.0, 3.0]

  1. The results were calculated excluding 10/48 and 3/48 FMs for the localisation performed on a single and multiple sequences, respectively. All the values are expressed in mm