The use of a Leksell-BRW adapter for linac radiosurgery as an adjunct to Gamma Knife treatment |
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| Authors: | Ekstrand Kenneth E Hinson William H Bourland J Daniel deGuzman Allan F Stieber Volker W Tatter Steven B Ellis Thomas L |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Radiation Oncology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA. |
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| Abstract: | We have investigated the use of an adapter that permits the use of a Leksell coordinate frame with a linear accelerator stereotactic radiosurgery system based on the Brown-Robert-Wells (BRW) design. This device is useful when lesions that are planned for treatment on a Leksell Gamma Knife system are found to be inaccessible to the Gamma Knife. We have found that with this device objects within a head phantom can be targeted by the linear accelerator within an accuracy of approximately 1 mm. |
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