title: An overview of methods in stereotactic radiosurgery.
abstract: Stereotactic radiosurgery delivers a single high dose of ionizing radiation to a radiographically well-defined, small intracranial target without delivering a significant proportion of the prescribed dose to the surrounding brain tissue. Three methods of delivering the radiosurgical technique include the gamma knife, heavy charged particle beams and external high-energy photon beams from linear accelerators.
authors.affiliation: Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis.
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Mughmaw
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D016634:Radiosurgery / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D013238:Stereotaxic Techniques