PMID: 8582155Sep 1, 1995Paper

The physical, biologic, and clinical basis of radiosurgery

Current Problems in Cancer
M P Mehta

Abstract

Since Leksell's description of the concept of radiosurgery in 1951, probably more than 20,000 patients worldwide have been treated with this technique. Initially designed as a tool for functional neurostereotaxis, it has found widespread applicability for conditions as diverse as vascular malformations, benign tumors such as acoustic neuroma, meningioma, pituitary adenoma, and also malignant tumors such as brain metastases and malignant glioma. From rudimentary knowledge of the ability to produce focal necrotic lesions, the biologic understanding of the process of single-fraction, small-volume, high-dose brain radiation has evolved into a multicompartmental model, with reasonable appreciation of the dose, volume, and time factors involved. With the explosion of technology on several fronts in the 1980s and 1990s, a multitude of devices for radiosurgery, ranging from cyclotron-generated particle beams to multisource cobalt-60 units to an immense variety of modified linear accelerators has become available. A parallel explosion of technology in the fields of imaging and computing will ensure that this is just the beginning; already, technologies for automated image segmentation and target identification, long the physician's mono...Continue Reading

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