A review of 3 current radiosurgery systems

DW Andrews, G Bednarz, JJ Evans, B Downes - Surgical neurology, 2006 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Stereotactic radiosurgery and fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy have
become widespread techniques applied to the treatment of a variety of intracranial lesions …

[HTML][HTML] Consideration of the radiation dose delivered away from the treatment field to patients in radiotherapy

ML Taylor, T Kron - Journal of medical physics, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Radiation delivery to cancer patients for radiotherapy is invariably accompanied by
unwanted radiation to other parts of the patient's body. Traditionally, considerable effort has …

[HTML][HTML] HyperArc VMAT planning for single and multiple brain metastases stereotactic radiosurgery: a new treatment planning approach

S Ohira, Y Ueda, Y Akino, M Hashimoto, A Masaoka… - Radiation …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Purpose The HyperArc VMAT (HA-VMAT) planning approach was newly developed
to fulfill the demands of dose delivery for brain metastases stereotactic radiosurgery. We …

Radiosurgery of multiple brain metastases with single-isocenter dynamic conformal arcs (SIDCA)

Y Huang, K Chin, JR Robbins, J Kim, H Li… - Radiotherapy and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Purpose To propose single-isocenter dynamic conformal arcs (SIDCA), a novel technique
for radiosurgery of multiple brain metastases, and to compare SIDCA with volumetric …

The international commission on radiation units and measurements

HG Menzel - Journal of the ICRU, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
The International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements - Hans-Georg Menzel,
2012 Skip to main content Scheduled maintenance on Monday, November 20th, with …

Dose fractionation in stereotactic radiotherapy for parasellar meningiomas: radiobiological considerations of efficacy and optic nerve tolerance

DC Shrieve, L Hazard, K Boucher, RL Jensen - Journal of neurosurgery, 2004 - thejns.org
Object. Benign meningiomas have been shown to be equally well controlled with single-
dose radiosurgery (15 Gy) and fractionated doses of 54 Gy in 30 fractions after adequate …

Dosimetric comparison of different treatment modalities for stereotactic radiosurgery of arteriovenous malformations and acoustic neuromas

T Gevaert, M Levivier, T Lacornerie, D Verellen… - Radiotherapy and …, 2013 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: We investigated the influence of beam modulation on treatment planning by
comparing four available stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) modalities: Gamma-Knife …

An arc‐sequencing algorithm for intensity modulated arc therapy

DM Shepard, D Cao, MKN Afghan, MA Earl - Medical physics, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Intensity modulated arc therapy (IMAT) is an intensity modulated radiation therapy delivery
technique originally proposed as an alternative to tomotherapy. IMAT uses a series of …

Dosimetric study using different leaf‐width MLCs for treatment planning of dynamic conformal arcs and intensity‐modulated radiosurgery

JY Jin, FF Yin, S Ryu, M Ajlouni, JH Kim - Medical physics, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
This paper systematically studied the dosimetric difference between a micro multileaf
collimator (MLC), a MLC, and a MLC for stereotactic radiosurgery using the Brainscan …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of collimator leaf width and treatment technique on stereotactic radiosurgery and radiotherapy plans for intra-and extracranial lesions

QJ Wu, Z Wang, JP Kirkpatrick, Z Chang, JJ Meyer… - Radiation …, 2009 - Springer
Background This study evaluated the dosimetric impact of various treatment techniques as
well as collimator leaf width (2.5 vs 5 mm) for three groups of tumors–spine tumors, brain …