Abstract：Objective To investigate change of the volume and the epicenter of target volume under different scan speed of the three-dimensional (3D) simulation computed tomography (CT) and determine the scan speed which close to ITV. Methods A dynamic phantom-QUASAR,with a 3 cm×3 cm×3 cm target cubic simulating respiratory motion was used. The phantom was set with three different amplitudes and breathing frequencies under different scan speed. The dynamic phantom was also scanned using simulation 4DCT as ITV was the standard. The length of the phantom was 12 cm, the scan time were 6.6 s, 12.8 s,31.7 s. The volume and epicenter of the target identified from 3DCT images were calculated and compared to 4DCT images. The number of times of target length (30±2) mm/total scan times was used to assese the accuracy. Results The total accuracy was 6.8%. For different scan speed,the accuracy were 13%,4% and 2%, respectively. The length of the epicenter of the target volume was (318.9±0.37) mm,(683.2±0.44) mm,(682.9±0.66) mm under the 0.5 cm,1.0 cm and 2.0 cm,respectively. When the scan time was 31.7 s,the volume of the target from the 3DCT were close to ITV－10 mm, the frequency were 50%,78%,56% for three different amplitude. Conclusions This study shows that the images from the 3D simulation CT were the partial image of the breathing cycle, and the epicenters were diversed with the breathing amplitude and scan speed. The accuracy rate of the 3DCT reflects the real target is low. In addition, the epicenter of the target changed randomly.
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