Technological Advances in Brain and Spine Radiosurgery
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A section of this issue of TCRT focuses on four articles dealing with technological advances in brain and spine radiosurgery. With the evolution of radiation technology to allow for high precision image-guided radiotherapy as an integrated part of mainstream linear accelerators, the practice of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is commonly applied to the brain and is rapidly developing as an attractive therapy for selected body targets. We start this section with a comprehensive review of the radiobiologic principles of SRS focused on how high dose stereotactic radiation delivered in a single, or few fractions, differs biologically from conventional fractionated radiotherapy.
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