Shaped Beam Radiosurgery State of the Art
Novalis® Shaped Beam Radiosurgery has set new standards by delivering highly precise radiation treatments to tumors anywhere in the body through the use of a proprietary multileaf collimator. By shaping the radiation beam to the exact contours of the tumo
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Antonio A.F. De Salles (Editor-in-Chief )
Alessandra A. Gorgulho • Nzhde Agazaryan Ben Slotman • Michael Selch (Co-Editors)
Aaron J. Burwick • Raymond A. Schulz (Managing Editors)
Shaped Beam Radiosurgery State of the Art
Editor-in-Chief Antonio A.F. De Salles Department of Neurosurgery David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA 10495 Le Conte Ave., Suite 2120 Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA [email protected] Co-Editors Alessandra A. Gorgulho Department of Neurosurgery UCLA Medical Center David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA 300 UCLA Medical Plaza, Suite B212 Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA [email protected] Nzhde Agazaryan David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA 200 UCLA Medical Plaza, Suite B265 Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA [email protected] Managing Editors Aaron J. Burwick Novalis Circle, Brainlab Inc. 3 Westbrook Corporate Center Suite 400, Westchester, IL 60154 USA [email protected]
Ben Slotman Department of Radiation Oncology VU University medical center De Boelelaan 1117, 1081 HV, Amsterdam The Netherlands [email protected] Michael Selch Department of Radiation Oncology David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA 200 UCLA Medical Plaza, Suite B265 Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA [email protected]
Raymond A. Schulz Varian Medical Systems, Inc. Varian Surgical Sciences 3100 Hansen Way Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA [email protected]
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Foreword
In previous decades the notion of multidisciplinary care was embraced to bring increasingly complex treatment modalities safely and expeditiously to patients. Stereotactic radiosurgery is exemplary of such a mutual effo
