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Treatment Planning for Stereotactic Radiosurgery

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Principles and Practice of Stereotactic Radiosurgery

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This chapter provides an introduction to treatment-planning procedures for stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS). The chapter begins with a brief history of SRS planning. Next, the basic steps followed in the development of an SRS treatment plan are described including imaging, contouring, selection of plan parameters, and evaluating treatment plan quality. The remainder of the chapter focuses on treatment planning for specific SRS delivery techniques including the Gamma Knife, linear accelerator-based SRS, CyberKnife, and proton radiosurgery.

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  1. Swedish Cancer Institute, Seattle, WA, USA

    David M. Shepard PhD (Director of Medical Physics)

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

    Cedric Yu PhD

  3. Department of Radiation Oncology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

    Martin Murphy PhD (Associate Professor)

  4. Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Marc R. Bussière MSc, DABR (Medical Radiation Physicist)

  5. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Frank J. Bova PhD (Professor of Neurosurgery)

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

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Shepard, D.M., Yu, C., Murphy, M., Bussière, M.R., Bova, F.J. (2008). Treatment Planning for Stereotactic Radiosurgery. 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_7

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