A Monte Carlo study to investigate the feasibility of an on-board SPECT/spectral-CT/CBCT imager for medical linear accelerator

Medical Physics
Hui WangYu Kuang

Abstract

The on-board flat-panel cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) lacks molecular/functional information for current online image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT). It might not be adequate for adaptive radiation therapy (ART), particularly for biologically guided tumor delineation and targeting which might be shifted and/or distorted during the course of RT. A linear accelerator (Linac) gantry-mounted on-board imager (OBI) was proposed using a single photon counting detector (PCD) panel to achieve single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), energy-resolved spectral CT, and conventional CBCT triple on-board imaging, which might facilitate online ART with an addition of volumetric molecular/functional imaging information. The system was designed and evaluated in the GATE Monte Carlo platform. The OBI system including a kV-beam source and a pixelated cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) detector panel mounted on a medical Linac orthogonally to the MV beam direction was designed to obtain online CBCT, spectral CT, and SPECT tri-modal imaging of patients in the treatment room. The spatial resolutions of the OBI system were determined by imaging simulated phantoms. The CBCT imaging was evaluated by a simulated contrast phantom. A PMMA phan...Continue Reading

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