title: Treatment planning for stereotactic radiosurgery with photon beams.
abstract: Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) has evolved as a unique discipline that combines aspects of both surgery and radiation oncology. Technological developments in the past few decades have provided a wide array of treatment techniques, including (i) the Gamma Knife; (ii) Linac-based stereotactic techniques using circular collimators or using micro multileaf collimators (mMLCs); (iii) the Cyber Knife, using an x-band linac mounted on a robotic arm; and (iv) serial and spiral tomotherapy. This paper provides a review of the treatment planning methods for stereotactic radiosurgery. Because of the differences in planning strategies used for each SRS technique, this paper will provide both a general review of the pre-requisites and common features of SRS treatment planning and the planning techniques specific to each of the SRS techniques.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 22 S. Greene Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. cyu002@umaryland.edu
authors.forename: Cedric
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Shepard
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D017785:Photons; D016634:Radiosurgery / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D011880:Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted