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Outline3 Quatitative Research-Group 8
Outline3 Quatitative Research-Group 8
Also, this will be true within each treatment site individually, as well as within
groups based on replan requirement.
III. Materials and Methods
A. PI: Study selection
1. Patient selection criteria
a. Inclusion criteria (4D treatments)
b. Exclusion criteria (not 4D treatments)
2. Study Population
a. Number of patients (18)
b. 4D lung patients (6)
c. 4D liver patients (5)
d. 4D esophagus patients (7)
B. PII: Study Design
1. 4D verification with phase gated average scan
a. MIM workflow
b. Eclipse import and verification plan process
C. PIII: Study Design
1. Single 50-phase scan
a. MIM workflow
b. Eclipse import and verification plan process
D. PIV: Plan Comparison
1. Physician review and contour modification
E. PV: Physician involvement
1. New CTV contour
a. original phase-gated average data set
b. 50-phase data set
2. Physician review
F. PVI: Data Collection and Statistical Analysis
1. Dose statistics
2. T-test for dependent means
3. P < 0.05 is considered statistically significant
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IV. Results
A. Quantitative Analysis
1. All treatment sites (Table 1, Table 2, Figure 1)
a. Rigid CTV contour (n=30): mean difference is -0.46% ± 1.1% (p=0.030)
b. Deformable CTV contour (n=30): mean difference is –0.13% ± 1.7%
(p=0.683)
c. New phase-gated CTV contour (n=20): mean difference is –0.63% ± 1.3%
(p=0.471)
d. New phase-gated vs. New 50-phase contour (n=20): mean difference is 0.45%
± 1.3% (p=0.139)
e. Target coverage (V95%) is within ± 5% for all contours
2. Lung (Figure 2)
a. Rigid CTV contour (n=7): mean difference is –1.72% ± 1.8% (p= 0.043)
b. Deformable CTV contour (n=7): mean difference is -1.13%± 2.2% (p=0.220)
c. New phase-gated CTV contour (n=7): mean difference is –1.67% ± 1.9%
(p=0.057)
d. New phase-gated vs. New 50-phase contour (n=7): mean difference is –1.08%
± 2.2%. (p=0.234)
e. Target coverage (V95%) is within ± 5% for all contours
3. Liver (Figure 3)
a. Rigid CTV contour (n=10): mean difference is 0.03% ± 0.2% (p= 0.593)
b. Deformable CTV contour (n=10): mean difference is 0.94% ± 1.3% (p=
0.052)
c. Target coverage (V95%) is within ± 5% for all contours
4. Esophagus (Figure 4)
a. Rigid CTV contour (n=13): mean difference is –0.16% ± 0.3% (p=0.053)
b. Deformable CTV contour (n=13): mean difference is –0.41% ± 1.3%
(p=0.288)
c. New phase-gated CTV contour (n=13): mean difference is –0.07% ± 0.3%
(p=0.328)
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