A new imaging mode based on X-ray CT as prior image and sparsely sampled projections for rapid clinical proton CT

分类： 物理学 >> 核物理学 提交时间： 2023-07-06

Yang, Yuqing Fang, Wencheng Huang, Xiaoxia Du, Qiang Li, Ming Zheng, Jian Zhao, Zhentang

摘要： Proton computed tomography (CT) has a distinct practical significance in clinical applications. It eliminates 35% errors caused by the transformation of Hounsfield unit (HU) to relative stopping power (RSP) valueswhen using X-ray CT for positioning andtreatment planning systems (TPSs). Following the development of FLASH proton therapy, there are increased requirements for accurate and rapid positioning in TPSs. Thus, anewrapid proton CT imaging mode is proposed based on sparsely sampled projections. The proton beam wasboosted to 350 MeV by a compact proton linear accelerator (linac). In this study,thecomparisons of the proton scattering with the energyof 350 MeV and 230 MeV are conducted based on GEANT4simulations.Asthe sparsely sampledinformation associated with beam acquisitions at 12angles is not enough for reconstruction, X-ray CT is used as a prior image. The RSP map generated by converting the X-ray CT was constructed based onMonte Carlo simulations. Consideringtheestimationof the most likely path (MLP), the prior image-constrained compressed sensing (PICCS) algorithm isused to reconstruct images from twodifferent phantoms using sparse protonprojections of 350 MeV parallel proton beam. The results show that it is feasible to realize the proton image reconstruction with the rapid protonCT imaging proposed in this paper. It can produce RSP maps withmuchhigher accuracy for TPSs and fast positioning to achieve ultra-fast imaging for real-time image-guided radiotherapy(IGRT) in clinical proton therapyapplications.

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