Updates in the management of brain metastases

ND Arvold, EQ Lee, MP Mehta, K Margolin… - Neuro …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The clinical management/understanding of brain metastases (BM) has changed
substantially in the last 5 years, with key advances and clinical trials highlighted in this …

Stereotactic radiosurgery alone for multiple brain metastases? A review of clinical and technical issues

A Sahgal, M Ruschin, L Ma, W Verbakel… - Neuro …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Over the past three decades several randomized trials have enabled evidence-based
practice for patients presenting with limited brain metastases. These trials have focused on …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-institutional dosimetric evaluation of modern day stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) treatment options for multiple brain metastases

I Vergalasova, H Liu, M Alonso-Basanta, L Dong… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Purpose/Objectives: There are several popular treatment options currently available for
stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) of multiple brain metastases: 60Co sources and cone …

Distance to isocenter is not associated with an increased risk for local failure in LINAC-based single-isocenter SRS or SRT for multiple brain metastases

J Kraft, JE van Timmeren, M Mayinger, S Frei… - Radiotherapy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose To evaluate the impact of the distance between treatment isocenter and brain
metastases on local failure in patients treated with a frameless linear-accelerator-based …

[HTML][HTML] Single-isocenter multiple-target stereotactic radiosurgery for multiple brain metastases: dosimetric evaluation of two automated treatment planning systems

GH Raza, L Capone, P Tini, M Giraffa, P Gentile… - Radiation …, 2022 - Springer
Purpose Automated treatment planning systems are available for linear accelerator (linac)-
based single-isocenter multi-target (SIMT) stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) of brain …

Comprehensive evaluation of the high‐resolution diode array for SRS dosimetry

S Ahmed, G Zhang, EG Moros… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A high‐resolution diode array has been comprehensively evaluated. It consists of 1013 point
diode detectors arranged on the two 7.7× 7.7 cm2 printed circuit boards (PCBs). The PCBs …

Evaluation of a magnetic resonance guided linear accelerator for stereotactic radiosurgery treatment

N Wen, J Kim, A Doemer, C Glide-Hurst… - Radiotherapy and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Introduction The purpose of this study was to investigate the systematic localization
accuracy, treatment planning capability, and delivery accuracy of an integrated magnetic …

Effect of setup error in the single‐isocenter technique on stereotactic radiosurgery for multiple brain metastases

H Nakano, S Tanabe, S Utsunomiya… - Journal of applied …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In conventional stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), treatment of multiple brain metastases
using multiple isocenters is time‐consuming resulting in long dose delivery times for …

[HTML][HTML] Single isocenter stereotactic radiosurgery for patients with multiple brain metastases: dosimetric comparison of VMAT and a dedicated DCAT planning tool

J Hofmaier, R Bodensohn, S Garny, I Hadi… - Radiation …, 2019 - Springer
Background In this dosimetric study, a dedicated planning tool for single isocenter
stereotactic radiosurgery for multiple brain metastases using dynamic conformal arc therapy …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of a dedicated brain metastases treatment planning optimization for radiosurgery: a new treatment paradigm?

T Gevaert, F Steenbeke, L Pellegri, B Engels… - Radiation …, 2016 - Springer
Purpose To investigate the feasibility of a novel dedicated treatment planning solution, to
automatically target multiple brain metastases with a single isocenter and multiple inversely …