Fluoroscopy-Guided Motion Management in Particle Therapy: Evolution, Challenges, and AI-Enabled Opportunities
Abstract
The sharp dose gradients that underpin the dosimetric advantage of particle therapy over photon therapy can be undermined by the interplay effects due to intra-fraction motion in modern pencil beam scanning systems. Fluoroscopy-Guided Particle Therapy (FGPT) offers a promising path to improved motion management through real-time tracking of tumors or surrogate signals. The advent of flat-panel detector (FPD)-based technology has enabled tighter integration of fluoroscopy/fluorography into treatment units and accelerated clinical adoption and research, with commercial systems such as Hitachi's Real-time Gated Particle Therapy (RGPT) now available. However, the need for implanted fiducial markers, with the associated invasiveness and risk of complications, limits the utility of RGPT to a few anatomic sites in selected patients. The full potential of FGPT, therefore, depends on reliable marker-less tumor tracking, which remains challenging because soft-tissue targets are obscured by overlapping anatomy along the X-ray path, leading to reduced reliability of traditional image-registration algorithms in the projection domain. Recent advances in deep learning and AI-driven image registration have renewed hope for overcoming these barriers, enabling real-time marker-less tracking for particle therapy. This review outlines the evolution of fluoroscopy technology from image intensifier (II) to FPD-based systems, summarizes historical and recent vendor-supported FGPT strategies, and…
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