How we are using the Gamma Knife Icon at the Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre?
Professor Arjun Sahgal will discuss the experience in the technical and clinical evaluation of the Gamma Knife Icon at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and will summarize their hypofractionation experience using both Linac and Gamma Knife Icon for intact brain metastases and surgical cavities. Novel approaches for difficult to treat brain metastases and use of […]
The Current State of the Medical Literature and Getting Published
In this webinar, Dr. Kondziolka will discuss the literature as it pertains to stereotactic radiosurgery, the different journals that are interested in radiosurgery publications, the state of scientific medical journal publications and changes in the industry.
Radiosurgery: What I Know Now That I Wish I Knew Back Then?
In this presentation I will review the science and practice of stereotactic radiosurgery for brain disorders, and focus on the changes that have occurred over the past 30 years. Learning continues for all clinicians, physicists and industry partners, and this review will set the stage for what needs to come.
The History of Linac Radiosurgery
The origins of SRS begin with cross-fired radiation beams in the early 1900s followed by early stereotactic neurosurgery in the 1930s. The first Linac-based SRS treatments were performed by neurosurgeons Betti in 1982 and Colombo in 1983 preceded by the pioneering work of Leksell in the 1950s. With thousands of SRS capable or dedicated linac-based […]
The Origins and Development of Radiosurgery and the Leksell Gamma Knife
In the 1930’s a young Lars Leksell joined Herbert Olivecrona in his operating room in Stockholm. The experience, with all its “blood, sweat and tears” and with up to 60 percent surgical mortality, prompted a lifelong quest for ways to minimize neurosurgical trauma. In the late 1940’s he developed his own stereotactic instrument, the basic […]