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Experimental Radiosurgery Models

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Principles and Practice of Stereotactic Radiosurgery

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The field of stereotactic radiosurgery represents one of the fundamental shifts in neurologic surgery over the past two decades. Compared with conventional invasive surgery techniques, radiosurgery is minimally invasive and relies on biological response of tissues in order to eradicate or inactivate them. Radiosurgery is conceptually different from fractionated radiation therapy. The efficacy of large-field fractionated radiotherapy to treat brain tumors is dependent on biological differences between normal and tumor cells. Fractionated radiotherapy exploits these differences to limit the risk of normal tissue injury in patients with malignant brain tumors, thus it can increase the therapeutic ratio, which is equivalent to the rate of tumor control divided by the rate of complications.

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  1. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Ajay Niranjan MBBS, MS, MCh (Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery) & Douglas Kondziolka MD, FRCS, FACS (Professor of Neuroloical Surgery)

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

    Lawrence S. Chin MD (Professor and Chairman) (Professor and Chairman)

  2. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland Medical School, Baltimore, MD, USA

    William F. Regine MD (Professor and Chairman) (Professor and Chairman)

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Niranjan, A., Kondziolka, D. (2008). Experimental Radiosurgery Models. In: Chin, L.S., Regine, W.F. (eds) Principles and Practice of Stereotactic Radiosurgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71070-9_6

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