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The preprocessing methods developed by our group previously were also used in this study. A total of 48 out of 50 phantom cases and 15 out of 17 real-patient cases were successfully reconstructed using the iterative algorithm together with image preprocessing. In contrast, 39 phantom cases and 8 patient cases could be reconstructed using the original FDK algorithm, and 44 phantom cases and 11 patient cases could be reconstructed using the FDK algorithm together with preprocessing. Compared with the FDK algorithm, the TV-BM3D iterative algorithm significantly improved the image quality of VMAT-CT at all treatment sites. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first to develop an iterative VMAT-CT reconstruction algorithm. It can be used to reconstruct CT images locally, and is superior to FDK-based algorithms in terms of the success rate and reconstructed image quality. 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