Breathing motion analysis based on cone beam CT images

Breathing motion is a rule-based motion. The traditional breathing motion is described by mathematical model which can not reflect the different properties of different patients or the different breathing periods of the same patient. So, it can not satisfy the needs of the real-time and accurate analysis. Accordingly, in this paper is proposed a method to establish the breathing model through tracking the cone beam CT images which are gained when the patient is breathing freely. The model obtained by the proposed method is similar to the traditional model, which verifies the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method. Simultaneously, the proposed method has "real-time" and "accurate" properties, which make it valuable in clinical application.