Table 3 Tolerance dosages for the specified effect probability levels*.

From: LASSO-based NTCP model for radiation-induced temporal lobe injury developing after intensity-modulated radiotherapy of nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Tolerance doses

TD for D1cc

TD for Dmax

TD1

52.7 ± 4.5

61.7 ± 3.2

TD5

62.8 ± 2.2

69.0 ± 1.6

TD10

67.4 ± 1.5

72.4 ± 1.1

TD20

72.4 ± 1.7

76.0 ± 1.2

TD30

75.7 ± 2.3

78.4 ± 1.6

TD50

80.9 ± 3.4

82.1 ± 2.4

  1. *Note that the tolerance doses were referred to with an underlying background of average of 33 fractions in the model.
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