As part of a current and continuing national trend to develop centers for neuroscience care, radiosurgery programs are and will be a “hot” topic for the next several years. Radiosurgery…

Fig. 39.1 (a, b) Preoperative T1-weighted post-gadolinium MRI (a axial view, b coronal view) demonstrating a glomus jugulare tumor in the right jugular foramen (white arrow). An extended far lateral…

  No. of patients Median follow-up (months) BNI I–III relief (%) Time to pain relief Median dose (Gy) Recurrence rate (%) Complication rate (%) Chen et al. [11] (Kaiser Los…

Fig. 58.1 Hypothalamic hamartomas topological classification. The exact location of the lesion in relation to the interpeduncular fossa and the walls of the third ventricle correlates with the extent of…

First Author (year) Methods compared Patients (N) PTV (cm3) Results Bourlandet al. (‘94) [9] Noncoplanar circular arc vs. conformal fixed beam NA NA Smaller high-dose volume and better homogeneity for…

  Surgical resection Stereotactic radiosurgery Patient selection Tissue diagnosis Confirms the lesion is a tumor Cannot confirm the lesion is a tumor Lesion size Large, ≥1.5 cma; especially if there…

G-R hearing class Criteria Class I (good) PTA 0–30dB and/or SDS 70–100 % Class II (serviceable/useful) PTA 31–50dB and/or SDS 50–69 % Class III (non-serviceable) PTA 51–90dB and/or SDS 5–49…

Fig. 11.1 The main components of the CyberKnife system. (Modified image used with permission from Accuray Incorporated) Fig. 11.2 A library of digitally reconstructed radiographs (DRRs) is generated from the…

Date Primary author Location Event 1928 R. Wideroe Baden, Switzerland Developed photon beam radiation with high-frequency generator 1938 W. Hansen Stanford, USA Description of “rhumbatron” using a resonant microwave unit…

Fig. 46.1 Comparison of treatment plans for 1-, 3-, and 5-fraction SBRT The long-term patient-reported outcomes data collected prospectively for hypofractionated SBRT at MDACC was reported by Wang et al….