Radiation Therapy

New findings reported from Thomas Jefferson University describe advances in radiation therapy

Published in Cancer Weekly, June 10th, 2008

"Cranial stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and radiotherapy (SRT) are established treatment modalities. Initial implementations of these techniques rigidly attached frames to the patient's head for single-fraction treatments," investigators in the United States report.

"The head frame accommodates an external fiducial marker system that is a reliable reference for targets within the cranium and accurately links the imaging equipment used for treatment planning to the treatment device. Fractionated SRT treatments use noninvasive ''relocatable''-type head immobilization that fixes to the patient's head and face features. Clearly defined quality assurance (QA) procedures...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-06-10)

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