Technology System Comparisons
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RADIOSURGERY SYSTEM COMPARISONS
| CyberKnife | Gamma Knife | Other Linac Systems | |
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| Radiosurgery Dedicated | Yes | Yes | No |
| Anatomic Area treatable with radiosurgical precision | Whole body | Brain/Skull base (minus extreme lateral) | Varies |
| IMRT dosimetry Method | Yes | No | Yes |
| IGRT Set-up Visualization | Yes | No | Yes |
| "Conventional" Radiotherapy and/or IMRT | No | No | Yes |
| Rigid Brain or Body Frame required for radiosurgical accuracy | No | Yes | Yes |
| Capable of conformally and homogeneously treating a non-spherical target volume > 3.5cm | Yes | No | Yes |
| Capable of fractionated radiosurgery to better preserve critical adjacent tissue | Yes | No | Yes |
| Tracks patient-induced motion with radiosurgical precision (<1mm) | Yes | N/A | Varies by method and manufacturer |
| IGRT Set-up Visualization | Yes | No | Yes |
| Tracks spine motion with radiosurgical precision (<1mm) | Yes | N/A | No |
| Tracks organ induced target volume motion with radiosurgical precision (<1mm) | Yes | N/A | No |
| Tracks respiration induced organ motion with radiosurgical precision (<1.5mm) | Yes | N/A | No |
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Capable of real-time submillimeter translational and rotational beam adaptation to target volume motion
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Yes | N/A | No |
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