Image Guided Robotic Radiosurgery

Image Guided Robotic Radiosurgery

ABSTRACT

Radiosurgery is the precise application of a high (tumor destructing) dose of radiation in a precisely defined target volume protecting the surrounding healthy tissue. During radiosurgery many radiation beams from different directions intersect in the tumor region where they accumulate to a total dose. Surrounding healthy tissue only receives a small fragment of the total dose.
Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) has been used for more than 30 years to treat benign and malignant tumors and blood vessel malformations. A noninvasive operation, SRS is a medical procedure that uses large, or “killing,” doses of very accurately targeted photon radiation. Until recent technology was developed, SRS treatment had been restricted to the region within the skull. To date, more than 100,000 people with brain lesions have been treated worldwide with SRS.
uncomfortable process severely limited the ability to deliver the radiation in divided, potentially safer doses because of difficulties associated with repeated head frame placement, patient immobilization, and target accuracy.
Thus to overcome revolutionary development of the Cyberknife radiosurgery combining integrated image guided robotic technology lead to a paradigm shift in radiosurgery . Cyberknife technology is based on radiosurgical principles which are in clinical practice since 30 years.
Thus providing future radiosurgery…….

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