呼吸运动对锥形束CT确定靶区的影响

Effect of Respiratory Movement on Cone Beam Computed Tomography Images

肺部肿瘤会随着人的呼吸运动而运动,为研究肿瘤运动周期内运动时段的不同对锥形束CT(CBCT)确定肿瘤靶区的影响,应用CIRS008胸部运动模体,取直径分别为1cm和3cm的球形靶模拟肺部肿瘤的正弦运动,然后在振幅不变的情况下改变靶运动在近呼气端与近吸气端时间的比值(E/I)进行CBCT扫描。提取靶运动方向中心线上每个像素的CT值分析图像中靶区对比度的变化,应用区域生长的方法自动勾画靶区,并与根据小球运动轨迹计算的运动体积进行比较。结果显示随着E/I的增大,近呼气端对比度升高而近吸气端对比度降低。勾画的靶区体积随着E/I的增大而减小,当E/I=4,振幅A=1cm时,直径分别为1cm和3cm的小球,体积分别减小了48.2%和22.7%;研究表明E/I增大时CBCT不能完整的反映靶的运动范围,CBCT可能会低估肺部肿瘤的内靶区。

To investigate the impact of respiratory movement to determine the target volume on cone beam CT （CBCT） for lung tumor,we used CIRS dynamic thorax phantom （Model-CIRS008） to simulate the sinusoidal motion of lung tumor. With a constant amplitude, the ratio of the time of near-end-expiratory and near-end- inspiratory （E/ I） changed when it was scanned with CBCT. We analyzed the contrast changes of target by extracting the CT value of each pixel on the center line of the target movement direction. The targets were contoured with region growing method and compared with the motion volume generated by the tumor trajectory method. The result showed that the contrast of near-end-expiratory increased and the contrast of near-end-inspiratory decreased with increasing E/I. The contoured volume generated by region growing method decreased with increasing E/I. When E/I=4, the amplitude A= 1 cm, diameter of 1 cm and 3 cm target volumes were reduced by 48.2% and 22.7%. The study showed that CBCT was not suitable to be used to accurately determine the range of lung tumor movement. The internal target volume （ITV） may be underestimated in CBCT images.