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As Table 3displays, the δ AUC analysis demonstrates a p-value of 0.036 for the rectal toxicity comparison, and a p-value of 0.065 for the bladder toxicity comparison, suggesting that [when using AUC as the measure of merit] the BED-DVH's were significantly better-correlated (than the corresponding C-DVH's) with rectal toxicity, and marginally better-correlated with bladder toxicity.
Furthermore, this approach was felt to be valid biologically, as integral dose to critical structures has been correlated by many investigators with late treatment toxicity [ 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ] . The authors are also aware of the special problems related to applying the DVH for tubular and surface structures (such as the rectum and bladder) [ 28 31 ] . However, because C-DVH's of the whole organs were used as the basis for the original clinical decision making on the patient population under consideration (i.e.
After construction of the C-DVH's and BED-DVH's, it was clear that the general shape of the two were slightly different, as would be expected by the non-linear transformation in Equation (1) above.
This table demonstrates a p-value of 0.021 for the rectal toxicity comparison, and a p-value of 0.021 for the bladder toxicity comparison, suggesting that [when using V60 as the measure of merit] the BED-DVH's were significantly better-correlated (than the corresponding C-DVH's) with rectal toxicity and with bladder toxicity.
The authors are aware of the recent efforts regarding advanced modeling concepts for evaluating the relationship between physical irradiation and biological damage on normal structures - in particular, BED provides a measure of biological effect at a point at which it is calculated - measuring the absolute biological effect over a volume having a non-uniform dose distribution formally requires the computation of the equivalent uniform dose (EUD) [ 23 ] . However, this caveat does not apply directly to the current task, because the goal of the current investigation is to use the DVH (constructed using either conventional dose or BED) as a relative measure of biological response, not as an absolute measure, and in this context constructing a DVH from BED computations and averaging the DVH's (both C-DVH's and BED-DVH's) over a patient population was felt to be an appropriate methodology.
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