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Stereotactic radiosurgery has treated depression, anxiety, anorexia nervosa, and aggression in severely ill, treatment-refractory patients (Leksell and Herner 1995). Noninvasive radiosurgical procedures were designed to emulate the results of invasive, lesion-based procedures such as stereotactic cingulotomy and anterior capsulotomy. Frequently, target volumes are not specified, but may be inferred from the collimator size (e.g., one 4 mm isocenter corresponds with approximately 34 mm3) typically with specified dose delivered to the 50% isodose line.
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Schneider, M.B., Soltys, S., Adler, J.R. (2023). Psychiatric Disorders. In: Roberge, D., Donaldson, S.S. (eds) Radiation Therapy of Benign Diseases. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2022_377
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