Clinical Application of Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT): Cranium to Prostate

• Main Author: Dwight E. Heron (auth)
• Other Authors: John Austin Vargo (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Medicine; Stereotactic radiosurgery; Gynecologic; Central Nervous System; Non small cell lung cancer; head and neck; stereotactic body radiation therapy; Prostate; Adrenal metastases
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Stereotactic radiosurgery is a relatively recent radiation technique initially developed using a frame-based system in 1949 by a Swedish neurosurgeon, Lars Leksell, for lesions not amendable to surgical resection. Radiosurgery is founded on principles of extreme radiation dose escalation, afforded b...