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CyberKnife® radiosurgery - Numerous applications:
Pulmonary metastases

The CyberKnife® System is the only radiation method that tracks a moving pulmonary lesion using Synchrony® respiratory tracking, bringing radiosurgical precision to lung lesions. This allows the application of extreme radiation dose escalation to melanoma pulmonary metastases, radiobiologically ablating them in a way that conventional radiation cannot safely match, creating a reasonable alternative to thoracotomy with resection.

 

CyberKnife
pulmonary metastases
Dose sculpting with CyberKnife
Image adapted from
"Robotic Radiosurgery" - First Edition
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Written by Donald B. Fuller, M.D. – Radiation Oncologist       



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