Respiratory Adaptive Computed Tomography (REACT)

Clearer lung cancer images, on standard CT Imagers.

 

Current Results

• Reduces imaging errors by up to 70%
• Reduces imaging by up to 50%

Milestones

• Five publications of simulation and phantom studies in high impact journals
• Development of real-time gating software complete
• Partnership with major CT vendor Siemens Healthineers
• Integration of REACT real-time gating software with clinical CT scanner at Blacktown Hospital, Sydney
• Cancer Australia funding received

Intellectual property

• Keall, P.J. and J.F. Williamson, Method and system of adaptive control for reducing motion artifacts and patient dose in four dimensional computed tomography. 2013
  • US 20070286331 A1
  • WO 2005099382 A2
  • US 8457717 B2

Publications

N. Morton, P. Keall, R. O’Brien and T. Reynolds, “CArdiac and REspiratory adaptive Computed Tomography (CARE-CT): a proof-of-concept digital phantom study”, Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine 2022.

N. Morton, R. O’Brien, P. Keall, and T. Reynolds, “System requirements to improve adaptive 4-dimensional computed tomography (4D CT) imaging”. Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express, 8, 065017, 2022.

N. Morton, J. Sykes, J. Barber, C. Hoffman, P. Keall, and R. O’Brien, “Reducing 4D CT imaging artifacts at the source: first experimental results from the respiratory adaptive computed tomography (REACT) system”. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 65(7) 2020.