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  • Medical Imaging
  • Radiotherapy Physics
  • Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

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  • Cone-beam CT (CBCT) imaging is crucial for radiotherapy but suffers from photon scatter, degrading HU accuracy.
  • Accurate HU reproduction is essential for dose accumulation and adaptive radiotherapy (ART).

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a deep learning method for CBCT intensity correction using phantom data.
  • To demonstrate the feasibility of using a U-net architecture for projection domain intensity correction.

Main Methods:

  • A novel deep learning approach using an improved U-net architecture was trained on projection pairs from CBCT and fan-beam CT scans.
  • Intensity deviations were estimated by comparing raw CBCT projections with virtual CT projections derived from phantom data.
  • The trained network was applied to patient head and neck CBCT data for intensity correction.

Main Results:

  • Corrected CBCT images showed a 2.08-fold improvement in contrast-to-noise ratio.
  • Mean absolute error decreased from 318 HU to 74 HU, and structural similarity index improved from 0.750 to 0.812.
  • Visual assessment confirmed reduced noise and beam-hardening artifacts compared to uncorrected images.

Conclusions:

  • Projection domain intensity correction for CBCT is feasible using convolutional neural networks trained on phantom data.
  • The proposed method shows significant potential for enhancing CBCT image quality in clinical radiotherapy.
  • This technique may facilitate dose monitoring and adaptive radiotherapy workflows.