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Reducing the tube current of the FBCT system can reduce the scanning dose, but it will lead to serious noise and artifacts in the reconstructed images. In this study, we proposed a deep learning method, Content-Noise Cycle-Consistent Generative Adversarial Network (CNCycle-GAN), to improve the image quality and CT value accuracy of low-dose FBCT images to meet the requirements of adaptive radiotherapy. We selected 76 patients with abdominal and pelvic tumors who received radiation therapy. The patients received one low-dose CT scan and one normal-dose CT scan in IGRT mode during different fractions of radiotherapy. The normal dose CT images (NDCT) and low dose CT images (LDCT) of 70 patients were used for network training, and the remaining 6 patients were used to validate the performance of the network. The quality of low-dose CT images after network restoration (RCT) were evaluated in three aspects: image quality, automatic delineation performance and dose calculation accuracy. Taking NDCT images as a reference, RCT images reduced MAE from 34.34 \u00b1 5.91 to 20.25 \u00b1 4.27, PSNR increased from 34.08 \u00b1 1.49 to 37.23 \u00b1 2.63, and SSIM increased from 0.92 \u00b1 0.08 to 0.94 \u00b1 0.07. The P value is less than 0.01 of the above performance indicators indicated that the difference were statistically significant. The Dice similarity coefficients (DCS) between the automatic delineation results of organs at risk such as bladder, femoral heads, and rectum on RCT and the results of manual delineation by doctors both reached 0.98. In terms of dose calculation accuracy, compared with the automatic planning based on LDCT, the difference in dose distribution between the automatic planning based on RCT and the automatic planning based on NDCT were smaller. 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