Toward CT-Equivalent Image Quality in Low-Dose Radiotherapy Planning: Conditional Diffusion-Based CBCT-to-CT Synthesis and the Impact of CBCT Input Representation
This study develops a supervised deep learning based CBCT to CT synthesis framework using a conditional denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM), where the generation of a CT-based planning for accurate positioning and dose calculation is obtained using generative models with low dose CBCT imaging.