Bed positioning system for radiation therapy

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9566039-B2
Application number	US-201514600265-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 20, 2015
Priority date	Mar 27, 2014
Publication date	Feb 14, 2017
Grant date	Feb 14, 2017

Abstract

Provided is a bed positioning system for a radiation therapy system capable of capturing X-ray transparent images and CT images by rotating an X-ray tube and an X-ray detector around a subject on a bed, comprising: a transparent image registration system which generates a subtraction image from a first X-ray transparent image captured by the X-ray tube and the X-ray detector and a digitally reconstructed radiograph generated from a treatment plan CT image, corrects the first X-ray transparent image by use of a correction image generated by processing the subtraction image in a previously specified direction, and compares the first X-ray transparent image after the correction and the digitally reconstructed radiograph to determine a movement amount of the bed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A bed positioning system for a radiation therapy system capable of capturing X-ray transparent images and CT images by rotating an X-ray tube and an X-ray detector around a subject on a bed, comprising:
a transparent image registration system which generates a subtraction image from a first X-ray transparent image captured by the X-ray tube and the X-ray detector and a digitally reconstructed radiograph generated from a treatment plan CT image, corrects the first X-ray transparent image by use of a correction image generated by processing the subtraction image in a previously specified direction, and compares the first X-ray transparent image after the correction and the digitally reconstructed radiograph to determine a movement amount of the bed.

2. The bed positioning system according to claim 1 , wherein the transparent image registration system generates the correction image by averaging the subtraction image in a previously specified direction or by determining the mode of the subtraction image in the specified direction.

3. The bed positioning system according to claim 1 , comprising a structure which can be arranged between the X-ray tube and the X-ray detector, wherein:
the first X-ray transparent image is a transparent image that has been captured by arranging the structure between the X-ray tube and the X-ray detector, and
the treatment plan CT image is a reference CT image in which the structure has not been captured.

4. The bed positioning system according to claim 3 , wherein the structure is configured so that its thickness is substantially uniform along a direction of a rotation axis of the X-ray tube and the X-ray detector but varies along a direction orthogonal to the rotation axis.

5. The bed positioning system according to claim 3 , wherein the transparent image registration system generates a second X-ray transparent image, as an image obtained by removing the structure from the first X-ray transparent image, by correcting the first X-ray transparent image by use of the correction image.

6. The bed positioning system according to claim 2 , comprising a structure which can be arranged between the X-ray tube and the X-ray detector, wherein:
the first X-ray transparent image is a transparent image that has been captured by arranging the structure between the X-ray tube and the X-ray detector, and
the treatment plan CT image is a reference CT image in which the structure has not been captured.

7. The bed positioning system according to claim 4 , wherein the transparent image registration system generates a second X-ray transparent image, as an image obtained by removing the structure from the first X-ray transparent image, by correcting the first X-ray transparent image by use of the correction image.

Assignees

• Hitachi Ltd

Inventors

• Umekawa Toru
• Aoki Takamichi

Classifications

• A61B6/035

  Mechanical aspects of CT · CPC title

• A61B6/4035

  the source being combined with a filter or grating · CPC title

• A61B6/5264 Primary

  due to motion · CPC title

• A61B6/486

  involving generating temporal series of image data · CPC title

• A61B6/5247

  combining images from an ionising-radiation diagnostic technique and a non-ionising radiation diagnostic technique, e.g. X-ray and ultrasound · CPC title