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On few‐view tomographic reconstruction with megavoltage photon beams
Author(s) -
Loose Stephen,
Leszczynski Konrad W.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1118/1.1387273
Subject(s) - iterative reconstruction , projection (relational algebra) , tomographic reconstruction , medical imaging , linear particle accelerator , tomography , computer science , image guided radiation therapy , radiation therapy , computer vision , medical physics , artificial intelligence , nuclear medicine , beam (structure) , physics , optics , radiology , medicine , algorithm
Currently portal imaging devices are used to obtain information on patient localization during radiation therapy treatments. Such obtained information is two dimensional in nature, limited to the plane of the captured image. It has been proposed that megavoltage computed tomography images be reconstructed to overcome this limitation. This study explores the feasibility of reconstructing tomographic images from fan‐beam projection data acquired with a commercial portal imaging device on a standard radiotherapy linear accelerator. Several CT reconstruction algorithms are examined as to their performance and suitability for applications in radiation therapy verification. The results show that it is possible, using some of the iterative reconstruction techniques, to obtain an image useful for patient localization from only several (⩽10) projection views.