Let's make size not matter: tumor control and toxicity outcomes of hypofractionated Gamma Knife radiosurgery for large brain metastases

A Mishra, D Koffler, E Calugaru, N Rowe… - Journal of Neuro …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose Management of patients with large brain metastases poses a clinical challenge,
with poor local control and high risk of adverse radiation events when treated with single …

Impact of social determinants of health on stereotactic radiotherapy for vestibular schwannoma

AD Desai, VP Shah, CC Tseng, R Povolotskiy… - The …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives/Hypothesis Linear accelerator (LINAC) and Gamma Knife (GK) are common
stereotactic radiation therapies for treating vestibular schwannoma (VS). There is currently …

In phantom evaluation of targeting accuracy in MRI-based brain radiosurgery

S Calusi, C Arilli, E Mussi, L Puggelli, D Farnesi… - Physica Medica, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose To determine the targeting accuracy of brain radiosurgery when planning
procedures employing different MRI and MRI+ CT combinations are adopted. Materials and …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling gamma knife radiosurgical toxicity for multiple brain metastases

EJ Hsu, Y Yan, RD Timmerman, Z Wardak… - Radiotherapy and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Background and Purpose Radiation oncology protocols for single fraction
radiosurgery recommend setting dosing criteria based on assumed risk of radionecrosis …

Clinical validation of novel lightning dose optimizer for gamma knife radiosurgery of irregular‐shaped arteriovenous malformations and pituitary adenomas

D Pokhrel, ME Bernard, J Knight… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To demonstrate the clinical feasibility of a novel treatment planning algorithm via
lightning dose optimizer (LDO) on Leksell Gamma Knife (LGK) GammaPlan with significantly …

Direct dosimetric comparison of linear accelerator vs. Gamma Knife fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (fSRT) of large brain tumors

E Calugaru, Z Whiting, B Delacruz, D Ma, B Garcia… - Medical …, 2023 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study was to directly compare the plan quality of Gamma Knife
(GK)(Elekta, Stockholm, Sweden)-vs linear accelerator (LINAC)-based delivery techniques …

Non-Coplanar Arc Optimization for Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy Treatment Planning

J Lincoln - 2023 - dalspace.library.dal.ca
Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) is a technique that delivers a high dose of
radiation in a single or small number of fractions and requires rapid fall off outside the target …

Robotics in Radiosurgery

SS Rai, LS Chin, H Babu, MM Al-Salihi - Robotics in Skull-Base Surgery, 2023 - Springer
The practice of neurosurgery is being transformed by the increasing adaptation of robotics.
The use of advanced robotics with image-guided computer software allows for the precise …

Frameless Gamma Knife Radiosurgery with Leksell ICON: Initial Experience

M Gill, M Sharma, R Ratan - Neurology India, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Gamma knife radiosurgery saw the light of the day when the Swedish physician “Lars
Leksell” postulated the salient first principles of stereotactic radiosurgery. Prior to being …

for Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations: An Overview of Techniques, Obliteration Rates and Complications

N Sadashiva, S Kedia, S Ganesh, RK Moorthy - 2023 - journals.lww.com
Intracranial arteriovenous malformations (AVM) are congenital vascular malformations of the
brain parenchyma that consist of a nidus within the brain parenchyma that is supplied by an …