Quality Assurance Program on Stereotactic Radiosurgery

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Günther H. Hartmann

   Pages 1-3

3. Quality Assurance Aspects and Requirements

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   Pages 5-21

4. Description of Recommended Quality Assurance Tests

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   Pages 23-73

5. List of Tests

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6. Back Matter

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Radiosurgery performed with the "Gamma Knife" or on a linac facility is a specific radiotherapy method to treat certain lesions in the brain with a high single radiation dose. Geometric miss of a radiosurgica target is considered the most likely serious error in a stereotactic radiosurgery treatment. Therefore, the issue of quality assurance in stereotactic radiosurgery is a serious one for neurosurgeons, physicists, patients and those of us who wish to analyze the results of radiosurgery. The purpose of this book is to offer and describe a quality assurance program and procedures of the physical and technical aspects through identifying the sources of possible errors and suggesting quality assurance tests that should be performed in order for a stereotactic system to be used clinically.

• Quality Assurance
• Qualitätskontrolle
• Radiochirurgie
• Strahlentherapie
• Tumor
• brain
• dosimetry
• imaging
• magnetic resonance
• magnetic resonance imaging
• magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
• radiation
• radiosurgery
• radiotherapy
• surgery
• Radiaton Oncology

• Department of Radiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

  Günther H. Hartmann

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