What is localization in radiotherapy and how does Radiant track it?

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What is localization in radiotherapy and how does Radiant track it?

Localization is about finding the exact position of the patient’s anatomy and the target tumor so the planned beams hit the right spot. It uses imaging data to verify and adjust the patient setup, ensuring alignment with the treatment plan before or during dose delivery. Radiant tracks localization by recording the image-based alignment results (such as shifts shown by the imaging) and linking those results to the plan, so the system can confirm that the patient is in the correct position or trigger corrections if needed. This is different from delivering the dose itself, which is the actual treatment step, or from choosing imaging protocols, which is about how images are acquired, or from color-coding tumor types, which is a classification task.

Localization is about finding the exact position of the patient’s anatomy and the target tumor so the planned beams hit the right spot. It uses imaging data to verify and adjust the patient setup, ensuring alignment with the treatment plan before or during dose delivery. Radiant tracks localization by recording the image-based alignment results (such as shifts shown by the imaging) and linking those results to the plan, so the system can confirm that the patient is in the correct position or trigger corrections if needed. This is different from delivering the dose itself, which is the actual treatment step, or from choosing imaging protocols, which is about how images are acquired, or from color-coding tumor types, which is a classification task.

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