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Designing, Building, and Installing a Stereotactic Radiosurgery Unit

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Principles and Practice of Stereotactic Radiosurgery

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This chapter reviews basic principles and general approaches in designing, building, and installing a stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) unit. Despite significant improvements and advancements in many SRS modalities over the past 50 years, the basic paradigms for delivering a precision SRS procedure remain unchanged. It is our goal to illustrate these paradigms across the existing state-of-the-art SRS platforms, and consequently depict a concerted picture for the current SRS practitioners.

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  1. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Lijun Ma Ph.D.

  2. Department of Radiation Oncology, Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Oakland, CA, USA

    Andrew Hwang Ph.D.

  3. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Arjun Sahgal M.D.

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    Lawrence S. Chin

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    William F. Regine

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Ma, L., Hwang, A., Sahgal, A. (2015). Designing, Building, and Installing a Stereotactic Radiosurgery Unit. In: Chin, L., Regine, W. (eds) Principles and Practice of Stereotactic Radiosurgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8363-2_7

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