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

• Autor principal: Dwight E. Heron (auth)
• Altres autors: John Austin Vargo (auth)
• Format: Electrònic Capítol de llibre
• Idioma: anglès
• Publicat: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Col·lecció: Frontiers Research Topics
• Matèries: Medicine; Stereotactic radiosurgery; Gynecologic; Central Nervous System; Non small cell lung cancer; head and neck; stereotactic body radiation therapy; Prostate; Adrenal metastases
• Accés en línia: 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...