PROJECT TEAM
Thomas Ravkilde, Medical Physicist, Aarhus University Hospital and Aarhus University.
Per Rugaard Poulsen, Professor, Aarhus University Hospital and Aarhus University.
The team has spent over a decade developing real-time tools for motion-managed radiotherapy, aiming to bring dynamic precision into clinical cancer care.
THE NEED
Tumors often move during radiotherapy, making it difficult to ensure precise dose delivery. This can lead to undertreatment of cancer or damage to healthy tissue.
THE SOLUTION
DoseTracker provides real-time calculations and comparisons of planned vs. delivered radiation dose to moving anatomy, guiding treatment adjustments on the fly.
DoseTracker – AUH
Call 1 – 2022 | Call 5 – 2024 | Call 7 – 2025
GRANT: 3 x 500,000 DKK
Clinical Area
Radiology, Tumor
Technology
Diagnostics, Artificial Intelligence
PROJECT SUMMARY
Radiotherapy plays a central role in treating cancer, but tumor and organ motion during treatment makes accurate dose delivery challenging. To compensate, clinicians add large safety margins—but this can still result in underdosing the tumor or harming healthy tissue.
DoseTracker is a real-time software tool that calculates and compares the radiation dose actually delivered to moving anatomy against the planned dose. It offers a full overview of clinically relevant metrics, empowering clinicians to intervene during treatment if needed.
The goal is to replace today’s static, unmonitored radiotherapy with adaptive treatments based on real-time anatomical changes—ultimately improving treatment precision and patient safety.
CLINICAL IMPACT
DoseTracker provides real-time calculations and comparisons of planned vs. delivered radiation dose to moving anatomy, guiding treatment adjustments on the fly.