01.02.2013 | editorial | Ausgabe 1/2013
Future of stereotactic intervention in lung cancer
- Zeitschrift:
- memo - Magazine of European Medical Oncology > Ausgabe 1/2013
Abstract
With the recent advances in technology, highly sophisticated hardware (linear accelerators specially designed for Stereotactic Radio-Surgery or Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) using novel image guidance prior to and during the procedure) and equally sophisticated planning treatment software (static and dynamic Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy) became available, allowing for ablative doses to be delivered with an accuracy of less than 1 mm to targets which are non-static due to respiratory motion.