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IMAGE-GUIDED ROBOTIC RADIOSURGERY

John R. Adler, Achim Schweikard, Rhea Tombropoulos, J.-C. Latombe

Year
1995
Citations
26

Abstract

Abstract: We describe a radiosurgical system based onanovel medical linear accelerator of particularly light weight, a six degree-of-freedom robotic arm and an on-line x-ray vision system. The system introduces a class of radiosurgical procedures, termed non-stereotactic, or image-guided radiosurgery. A treatment planning subsys-tem based on new paradigms for inverse planning was developed in an interdisciplinary project at Stanford Univer-

Keywords

RadiosurgeryComputer scienceComputer visionArtificial intelligenceMedical physicsMedicineRadiologyRadiation therapy

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