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Table 2 Treatment Characteristics

From: Clinical outcomes of image-guided proton therapy for histologically confirmed stage I non-small cell lung cancer

Characteristic

All

Inoperable

Operable

No. of patients

55

21

34

No. of portals, 2/3/4

3/41/11

0/18/3

3/23/8

Position matching method

 Fiducial marker

39 (71%)

14 (67%)

25 (74%)

 Vertebral bone

16 (29%)

7 (33%)

9 (26%)

IGTV definition

 IGTV-all

48 (87%)

18 (86%)

30 (88%)

 IGTV-gate

7 (13%)

3 (14%)

4 (13%)

 GTV (cc), median (range)

11 (1.1–53)

12 (1.7–38)

10 (1.1–53)

 IGTV (cc), median (range)

17 (1.8–80)

22 (2.8–53)

15 (1.8–80)

DVH parameters

 IGTV V95% (%), median (range)

100 (97–100)

100 (99–100)

100 (97–100)

 IGTV D95% (%), median (range)

100 (97–100)

99 (98–100)

100 (97–100)

 Lung-GTV V5 (%), median (range)

14 (4.3–28)

14 (4.3–28)

13 (5.2–25)

 Lung-GTV V20 (%), median (range)

9.3 (3.0–21)

9.6 (3.0–21)

8.7 (3.7–18)

  1. Abbreviations, IGTV internal gross tumor volume, GTV gross tumor volume, DVH dose-volume histogram. V95% = volume receiving > 95% of the prescribed dose, D95% = minimum doses covering 95% of the volume, V5, 20 = volume receiving dose > 5/20 Gy(RBE)