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Table 3 Characteristics of the patients

From: The feasibility of a dose painting procedure to treat prostate cancer based on mpMR images and hierarchical clustering

Parameters

Value a,b

DP procedure

IMRT procedure

Age (years)

71 ± 8

73 ± 9

Initial PSA level (ng/ml)

24.86 ± 9.5

22.22 ± 10.8

Gleason score

 7

9

8

 8–10

11

12

Number of lesions

34

37

Whole prostate volume (cm3)

37.18 ± 9.17

35.66 ± 10.56

DIL volume (cm3)

1.73 ± 1.41

1.67 ± 1.45

Whole prostate ADC (10−6 mm2/s)

1122 ± 142

1154 ± 124.4

DIL ADC (10−6 mm2/s)

894.9 ± 253

884.3 ± 242

DIL Ktrans (min−1)

3.6 ± 2.3

3.1 ± 1.9

  1. aMean and standard deviation (Mean ± SD) values are reported for age, PSA, Whole prostate volume, DIL volume, whole prostate ADC, DIL ADC, and DIL Ktrans
  2. bThe values stated for the Gleason score are the number of patients with the mentioned scores