CyberKnife NeuroRadiosurgery

Description:

This book is a practical guide on image-guided robotic (CyberKnife®) radiosurgery of the brain and the spine. The volume introduces the radiosurgical community to the potential of image-guidance in the treatment of neurosurgical diseases including neuro-oncological, vascular and functional disorders. Principles of image-guided radiosurgery, including physics and radiobiology are considered. Each chapter provides a critical review of the literature and analyses of several aspects to offer an assessment of single and hypofractionated treatments. Based on the authors’ experience, tables or summaries presenting the treatment approaches and associated risks are included as well. Providing a practical guide to define the selection of dose, fractionation schemes, isodose line, margins, imaging, constraints to the structures at risk will support safe practice of neuroradiosurgery. This book aims to shed new light on the treatment of neoplastic and non-neoplastic diseases of the central nervous system using the CyberKnife® image-guided robotic radiosurgery system. It will be adopted by neurosurgery residents and neurosurgery consultants as well as residents in radiation oncology and radiation oncologists; medical physicists involved in radiosurgery procedures may also benefit from this book. 

Table of Contents:

Part I. Historical Perspectives

1. Creating the Future

2. CyberKnife Warfare in America: Battles at the Border Between Neurosurgery and Radiation Oncology

Part II. Physics

3. The CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System

4. The Target Locating System for CyberKnife Neuroradiosurgery

5. Treatment Planning

6. Small Field Dosimetry

7. Quality Control

Part III. Imaging

8. Morphological Imaging

9. Functional Imaging

10. Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) Tractography

11. Metabolic Imaging

Part IV. Radiobiology

12. Radiobiology of Radiosurgery and Hypofractionated Treatments

13. Organs at Risk (OAR) Tolerance in Hypofractionated Radiosurgery

Part V. Oncology

14. Brain Metastases Surgical Management: Diagnostic, Therapeutic and Strategic Considerations

15. Brain Metastasis: The Experience of the Burdenko Institute of Neurosurgery

16. Multiple Brain Metastases

17. CyberKnife Neuroradiosurgery for Large Brain Metastases and Tumor Bed

18. Convexity and Parasagittal Meningiomas

19. Skull Base Meningiomas

20. High-Grade Meningiomas and Hemangiopericytomas

21. Perioptic Meningiomas

22. Optic Nerve Sheath Meningiomas

23. Vestibular Schwannomas

24. Large Vestibular Schwannomas

25. Pituitary Adenomas

26. Craniopharyngiomas

27. Malignant Gliomas

28. Pilocytic Astrocytomas

29. Pineal Tumors

30. Reirradiation of Skull Base Tumors

31. Chordoma and Chondrosarcoma

32. Paragangliomas of the Head and Neck

33. Paragangliomas: A Case Series from Burdenko Center of Neurosurgery

34. Brainstem Tumors

35. Uveal Melanoma

36. Pediatric Radiosurgery

37. Immunotherapy and Radiosurgery

Part VI. Spine

38. Spinal Metastases

39. Re-irradiation of Spinal Metastases

40. Radiosurgery for Benign Spinal Tumors

41. Intradural Spinal Lesions

Part VII. Vascular Lesions

42. Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations

43. Large Arteriovenous Malformations

44. Cyberknife Radiosurgery for Cerebral Cavernous Malformations

45. Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas

46. Cavernous Sinus Hemangioma

Part VIII. Functional Disorders

47. Trigeminal Neuralgia

48. Movement Disorders

49. Image-Guided Robotic Radiosurgery for the Treatment of Drug-Refractory Epilepsy

50. Behavioral/Psychiatric Disorders