A Megavoltage CT Image Enhancement Method for Image-Guided and Adaptive Helical TomoTherapy

被引:8
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作者
Liu, Yaru [1 ]
Yue, Chenxi [1 ]
Zhu, Jian [2 ,3 ]
Yu, Haining [2 ]
Cheng, Yang [2 ]
Yin, Yong [2 ]
Li, Baosheng [2 ]
Dong, Jiwen [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Jinan, Network Based Intelligent Comp, Jinan, Shandong, Peoples R China
[2] Shandong Univ, Shandong Canc Hosp, Dept Radiat Oncol, Jinan, Shandong, Peoples R China
[3] Qingdao Univ, Affiliated Hosp, Shandong Key Lab Digital Med & Comp Assisted Surg, Qingdao, Shandong, Peoples R China
来源
FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY | 2019年 / 9卷
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
megavoltage CT; image guided radiotherapy; adaptive radiotherapy; tomotherapy; image enhancement; block matching; discriminative feature representation; irradiation dosimetry; RADIOTHERAPY; MVCT;
D O I
10.3389/fonc.2019.00362
中图分类号
R73 [肿瘤学];
学科分类号
100214 ;
摘要
Purpose: To propose a novel method to improve the mega-voltage CT (MVCT) image quality for helical TomoTherapy while maintaining the stability on dose calculation. Materials and Methods: The Block-Matching 3D-transform (BM3D) and Discriminative Feature Representation (DFR) methods were combined into a novel BM3D + DFR method for their respective advantages. A phantom (Catphan504) and three serials of clinical (head & neck, chest, and pelvis) MVCT images from 30 patients were acquired using the helical TomoTherapy system. The contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) and edge detection algorithm (canny) was employed for image quality comparisons between the original and BM3D + DFR enhanced MVCT. A simulated rectangular field of 6 MV X-ray beams were vertically delivered on the original and post-processed MVCT serials of the same CT density phantom, and the dose curves on both serials were compared to test the effects of image enhancement on dose calculation accuracy. Results: In total, 466 transversal MVCT slices were acquired and processed by both BM3D and the proposed BM3D + DFR methods. Compared to the original MVCT image, the BM3D + DFR method presented a remarkable improvement in terms of the soft tissue contrast and noise reduction. For the phantom image, the CNR of the region of interest (ROI) was improved from 1.70 to 4.03. The average CNR of ROIs for 10 patients from each anatomical group, were increased significantly from 1.45 +/- 1.51 to 2.09 +/- 1.68 for the head & neck (p < 0.001), from 0.92 +/- 0.78 to 1.36 +/- 0.85 for the chest (p < 0.001), and from 1.12 +/- 1.22 to 1.76 +/- 1.31 for the pelvis (p < 0.001), respectively. The canny edge detection operator showed that BM3D + DFR provided clearer organ boundaries with less chaos. The root-mean-square of the dosimetry difference on the iso-center passed horizontal dose profile curves and vertical percentage depth dose curves were only 0.09% and 0.06%, respectively. Conclusions: The proposed BM3D + DFR method is feasible to improve the soft tissue contrast for the original MVCT images with coincidence in dose calculation and without compromising resolution. After integration in clinical workflow, the post-processed MVCT may be better applied on image-guided and adaptive helical TomoTherapy.
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