Artificial intelligence in radiotherapy: a technological review

K Sheng - Frontiers of Medicine, 2020 - Springer
Radiation therapy (RT) is widely used to treat cancer. Technological advances in RT have
occurred in the past 30 years. These advances, such as three-dimensional image guidance …

A model‐based scatter artifacts correction for cone beam CT

W Zhao, D Vernekohl, J Zhu, L Wang, L **ng - Medical physics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Due to the increased axial coverage of multislice computed tomography (CT) and
the introduction of flat detectors, the size of x‐ray illumination fields has grown dramatically …

Evaluation and clinical application of a commercially available iterative reconstruction algorithm for CBCT-based IGRT

W Mao, C Liu, SJ Gardner, F Siddiqui… - … in cancer research …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Purpose: We have quantitatively evaluated the image quality of a new commercially
available iterative cone-beam computed tomography reconstruction algorithm over standard …

Panoramic dental tomosynthesis imaging by use of CBCT projection data

T Kwon, D Choi, J Hwang, T Lee, I Lee, S Cho - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Dental CBCT and panoramic images are important imaging modalities used in dental
diagnosis and treatment planning. In order to acquire a panoramic image without an …

Beam hardening correction using cone beam consistency conditions

S Abdurahman, R Frysch, R Bismark… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The polychromatic X-ray spectrum and the energy-dependent attenuation coefficient of
materials cause beam hardening artifacts in CT reconstructed volumes. These artifacts …

Image quality improvement in bowtie‐filter‐equipped cone‐beam CT using a dual‐domain neural network

S Yun, U Jeong, D Lee, H Kim, S Cho - Medical Physics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background The bowtie‐filter in cone‐beam CT (CBCT) causes spatially nonuniform x‐ray
beam often leading to eclipse artifacts in the reconstructed image. The artifacts are further …

Enhancement of soft-tissue contrast in cone-beam CT using an anti-scatter grid with a sparse sampling approach

S Cho, S Lim, C Kim, S Wi, T Kwon, WS Youn, SH Lee… - Physica Medica, 2020 - Elsevier
Purpose Anti-scatter grids suppress the scatter substantially thus improving image contrast
in radiography. However, its active use in cone-beam CT for the purpose of improving …

Modified fast adaptive scatter kernel superposition (mfASKS) correction and its dosimetric impact on CBCT‐based proton therapy dose calculation

Y Nomura, Q Xu, H Peng, S Takao, S Shimizu… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose While cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) is able to provide patient
anatomical information, its image quality is severely degraded due to scatter contamination …

A study of quantitative indicators for slice sorting in cine-mode 4DCT

C Kim, H Kim, S Kim, Y Goh, M Park, H Kim, C Jeong… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The uncertainties of four-dimensional computed tomography (4DCT), also called as residual
motion artefacts (RMA), induced from irregular respiratory patterns can degrade the quality …

An analysis of scatter characteristics in x-ray CT spectral correction

T Zhang, Z Chen, H Zhou, NR Bennett… - Physics in Medicine …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
X-ray scatter remains a major physics challenge in volumetric computed tomography (CT),
whose physical and statistical behaviors have been commonly leveraged in order to …