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Table 3 Dose-volume constraints for OARs

From: Reproducibility and stability of voluntary deep inspiration breath hold and free breath in breast radiotherapy based on real-time 3-dimensional optical surface imaging system

OARs

Dose volume parameters

Spinal cord

Dmax < 40 Gy

Ipsilateral lung

Dmean < 15 Gy, V20 < 30%, V5 < 50%

Contralateral lung

V5 < 20%

Heart (left-side breast cancer)

Dmean < 15 Gy, V5 < 50%

Heart (right-side breast cancer)

Dmean < 15 Gy, V5 < 50%

Liver

V5 < 20%

Thyroid

Dmean < 30 Gy

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Radiation Oncology

ISSN: 1748-717X

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