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Overview of Radiosurgery Technology

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Textbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Abstract

Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is still often referred to as a new or “high tech” treatment. And yet it is 57 years since Lars Leksell invented the concept and coined the term radiosurgery [1]. After experimenting with orthovoltage irradiation and considering heavy particle use, Leksell invented the Gamma Knife (GK) in 1967 [2]. In the early 1980s, Betti and Derechinsky, and Colombo, et al. adapted linear accelerators (Linacs) to deliver photon based SRS [3–6], thereby ushering in the second generation of SRS devices. Linacs offered a promising alternative form of external beam radiotherapy to the gamma knife [7–9].

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  1. Canadian Research Chair in Neuroscience (Tier 1), 399 Bathurst St. WW 4-447, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2S8, Canada

    Andres M. Lozano (Professor of Surgery and RR Tasker Chair in Functional Neurosurgery University of Toronto Senior Scientist, Toronto Western Research Institute President, World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery) (Professor of Surgery and RR Tasker Chair in Functional Neurosurgery University of Toronto Senior Scientist, Toronto Western Research Institute President, World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery)

  2. Houston Stereotactic Concepts, Inc., 2260 West Holcombe Boulevard Suite 309, Houston, Texas, 77030, USA

    Philip L. Gildenberg

  3. University of Toronto, 399 Bathurst St. WW 4-447, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2S8, Canada

    Ronald R. Tasker

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Schulder, M. (2009). Overview of Radiosurgery Technology. In: Lozano, A.M., Gildenberg, P.L., Tasker, R.R. (eds) Textbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69960-6_57

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