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    Feasibility Study of Dual Energy Radiographic Imaging for Target Localization in Radiotherapy for Lung Tumors

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    Huo, Jie; Zhu, Xianfeng; Dong, Yang; Yuan, Zhiyong; Wang, Ping; Wang, Xuemin; Wang, Gang; Hu, Xin-Hua; Feng, Yuanming
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    Purpose Dual-energy (DE) radiographic imaging improves tissue discrimination by separating soft from hard tissues in the acquired images. This study was to establish a mathematic model of DE imaging based on intrinsic properties of tissues and quantitatively evaluate the feasibility of applying the DE imaging technique to tumor localization in radiotherapy. Methods We investigated the dependence of DE image quality on the radiological equivalent path length (EPL) of tissues with two phantoms using a stereoscopic x-ray imaging unit. 10 lung cancer patients who underwent radiotherapy each with gold markers implanted in the tumor were enrolled in the study approved by the hospital's Ethics Committee. The displacements of the centroids of the delineated gross tumor volumes (GTVs) in the digitally reconstructed radiograph (DRR) and in the bone-canceled DE image were compared with the averaged displacements of the centroids of gold markers to evaluate the feasibility of using DE imaging for tumor localization. Results The results of the phantom study indicated that the contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) was linearly dependent on the difference of EPL and a mathematical model was established. The objects and backgrounds corresponding to ΔEPL less than 0.08 are visually indistinguishable in the bone-canceled DE image. The analysis of patient data showed that the tumor contrast in the bone-canceled images was improved significantly as compared with that in the original radiographic images and the accuracy of tumor localization using the DE imaging technique was comparable with that of using fiducial makers. Conclusion It is feasible to apply the technique for tumor localization in radiotherapy.
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    2014
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    Huo, Jie, & Zhu, Xianfeng, & Dong, Yang, & Yuan, Zhiyong, & Wang, Ping, & Wang, Xuemin, & Wang, Gang, & Hu, Xin-Hua, & Feng, Yuanming. (January 2014). Feasibility Study of Dual Energy Radiographic Imaging for Target Localization in Radiotherapy for Lung Tumors. PLoS ONE, (9:9), p.1-7. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5771

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    Huo, Jie, and Zhu, Xianfeng, and Dong, Yang, and Yuan, Zhiyong, and Wang, Ping, and Wang, Xuemin, and Wang, Gang, and Hu, Xin-Hua, and Feng, Yuanming. "Feasibility Study of Dual Energy Radiographic Imaging for Target Localization in Radiotherapy for Lung Tumors". PLoS ONE. 9:9. (1-7.), January 2014. March 02, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5771.
    Chicago:
    Huo, Jie and Zhu, Xianfeng and Dong, Yang and Yuan, Zhiyong and Wang, Ping and Wang, Xuemin and Wang, Gang and Hu, Xin-Hua and Feng, Yuanming, "Feasibility Study of Dual Energy Radiographic Imaging for Target Localization in Radiotherapy for Lung Tumors," PLoS ONE 9, no. 9 (January 2014), http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5771 (accessed March 02, 2021).
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    Huo, Jie, Zhu, Xianfeng, Dong, Yang, Yuan, Zhiyong, Wang, Ping, Wang, Xuemin, Wang, Gang, Hu, Xin-Hua, Feng, Yuanming. Feasibility Study of Dual Energy Radiographic Imaging for Target Localization in Radiotherapy for Lung Tumors. PLoS ONE. January 2014; 9(9) 1-7. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5771. Accessed March 02, 2021.
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