Technological quality requirements for stereotactic radiotherapy: Expert review group consensus from the DGMP Working Group for Physics and Technology in …

D Schmitt, O Blanck, T Gauer, MK Fix… - Strahlentherapie und …, 2020 - Springer
This review details and discusses the technological quality requirements to ensure the
desired quality for stereotactic radiotherapy using photon external beam radiotherapy as …

Stereotactic radiosurgery for neurosurgical patients: a historical review and current perspectives

I Yang, M Udawatta, GN Prashant, C Lagman… - World neurosurgery, 2019 - Elsevier
Today, stereotactic radiosurgery is an effective therapy for a variety of intracranial pathology
that were treated solely with open neurosurgery in the past. The technique was developed …

Dosimetric performance and planning/delivery efficiency of a dual-layer stacked and staggered MLC on treating multiple small targets: a planning study based on …

T Li, P Irmen, H Liu, W Shi, M Alonso-Basanta… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Purpose: To evaluate the dosimetric performance and planning/delivery efficiency of a dual-
layer MLC system for treating multiple brain metastases with a single isocenter. Materials …

Inter-observer variability in target volume delineations of benign and metastatic brain tumours for stereotactic radiosurgery: results of a national quality assurance …

S Growcott, T Dembrey, R Patel, D Eaton, A Cameron - Clinical Oncology, 2020 - Elsevier
Aims To quantify inter-observer variation between all the intracranial stereotactic
radiosurgery (SRS) providers in England in delineating the target volumes of four brain …

A real-time optimal inverse planning for Gamma Knife radiosurgery by convex optimization: description of the system and first dosimetry data

M Levivier, RE Carrillo, R Charrier, A Martin… - Journal of …, 2018 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE The authors developed a new, real-time interactive inverse planning approach,
based on a fully convex framework, to be used for Gamma Knife radiosurgery. METHODS …

The new SRS/FSRT technique HyperArc for benign brain lesions: a dosimetric analysis

HW Ho, CC Yang, HM Lin, HY Chen, CC Huang… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
To evaluate the potential benefit of HyperArc (HA) fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy
(FSRT) for the benign brain lesion. Sixteen patients with a single deep-seated, centrally …

Benchmarking tests of contemporary SRS platforms: have technological developments resulted in improved treatment plan quality?

I Paddick, J Mott, J Bedford, P Filatov… - Practical Radiation …, 2023 - Elsevier
Purpose Stereotactic radiosurgery treatment delivery can be performed with a range of
devices, each of which have evolved over recent years. We sought to evaluate the …

Importance of training in external beam treatment planning for locally advanced cervix cancer: report from the EMBRACE II dummy run

Y Seppenwoolde, MS Assenholt, D Georg… - Radiotherapy and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background and purpose The EMBRACE II study combines state-of-the-art Image-Guided
Adaptive Brachytherapy in cervix cancer with an advanced protocol for external beam …

[HTML][HTML] Use of dose-area product to assess plan quality in robotic radiosurgery

M Eichner, A Hellerbach, M Hoevels, K Luyken… - … für Medizinische Physik, 2024 - Elsevier
Purpose In robotic stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), optimal selection of collimators from a
set of fixed cones must be determined manually by trial and error. A unique and uniformly …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of variations in overall treatment time on the clonogenic survival of V79-4 cells: implications for radiosurgery

S Hallgren, MA Hill, JM Thompson, A Elliott… - … of Radiosurgery and …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The importance of effects related to the repair of sublethal radiation damage as treatment
duration varies, partly a function of dose-rate, is a current controversy in clinical …