Performance evaluation of a CyberKnife® G4 image-guided robotic stereotactic radiosurgery system

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 4697-4718

  Antypas, Christos ^a,b   Pantelis, Evaggelos ^a  

^a Medical Physics Department Iatropolis   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLEXIBLE MANIPULATORS; FLOW PATTERNS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MANIPULATORS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; ROBOTICS; TARGETS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; X RAY CAMERAS;

ACCEPTANCE LIMITS; BEAM CHARACTERISTICS; CRITICAL FREQUENCIES; CYBERKNIFE; EXPOSURE TIME; FLAT-PANEL DETECTORS; GEOMETRICAL DISTORTIONS; GRID PATTERNS; IMAGE-GUIDED; LOCATING SYSTEM; OUTPUT PARAMETERS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; POSITION UNCERTAINTIES; QUALITY ASSURANCE TESTING; ROBOTIC MANIPULATORS; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; X-RAY GENERATORS;

ROBOTS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CAMERA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA KNIFE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; ROBOTICS; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROBOTICS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 51849098609     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/17/016     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Accuray Physics Essentials Guide 2006 Cyberknife System Manual (Sunnyvale, CA: Accuray(tm) Inc.)
2. Adler J R, Murphy M J, Chang S D and Hancock S L 1999 Image-guided robotic radiosurgery Neurosurgery 44 1299-307
3. Aird E G A et al 1996 Central axis depth dose data for use in radiotherapy Br. J. Radiol. (Suppl. 25) (London: British Institute of Radiology)
4. Andreo P, Burns D T, Hohlfeld K, Huq M S, Kanai T, Laitano F, Smyth V and Vynckier S 2000 Absorbed dose determination in external beam radiotherapy: an international code of practice for dosimetry based on standards of absorbed dose to water IAEA Technical Report Series 398 (Vienna: IAEA)
5. Bucholz R D, Gagnon, Gerszten P C, Kresl J J, Levendag P C, Schulz R A and Mould R F 2005 Robotic Radiosurgery vol 1 (Sunnyvale, CA: The CyberKnife Society Press)
6. Casamassima F, Cavedon C, Francescon P, Stancanello J, Avanzo M, Cora S and Scalchi P 2006 Use of motion tracking in stereotactic body radiotherapy: evaluation of uncertainty in off-target dose distribution and optimization strategies Acta Oncol. 45 943-7
7. Chang S D, Main W, Martin D P, Gibbs I C and Heilbrun M P 2003 An analysis of the accuracy of the CyberKnife: a robotic frameless stereotactic radiosurgical system Neurosurgery 52 140-6
8. Curry T S, Dowdey J E and Murry R C Jr 1990 Christensen's Physics of Diagnostic Radiology 4th edn (Philadelphia: Lea and Febiger)
9. Droege R T 1983 A practical method to routinely monitor resolution in digital imagers Med. Phys. 10 37-43
10. Duggan D M and Coffey C W 1998 Small photon field dosimetry for stereotactic radiosurgery Med. Dosim. 23 153-9
11. Francescon P, Cora S, Cavedon C, Scalchi P, Recannello and Colombo F 1998 Use of new type radiochromic film, a new parallel-plate micro-chamber, MSFETS and TLD 800 microcubes in the dosimetry of small beams Med. Phys. 25 503-11
12. Francescon P, Cora S, Cavedon C, Scalhi P and Stancanello J 2005 Cyberknife Dosimetric Beam Characteristics: Comparison Between Experimental Results and Monte Carlo Simulation Robotic Radiosurgery Vol 1 (CyberKnife Society Press) pp 271-80
13. Fu D, Kuduvalli G, Mitrovic V, Main W and Thomson L 2005 Automated skull tracking for the CyberKnife image-guided radiosurgery system SPIE Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2005, San Diego, CA) pp 366-77
14. Fu D and Kuduvalli G 2008 A fast, accurate and automatic 2D-3D image registration for image-guided cranial radiosurgery Med. Phys. 35 2180-94
15. Hansen E K, Larson D A, Aubin M, Chen J, Descovich M, Gillis A M, Morin O, Xia P and Pouliot J 2006 Image-guided radiotherapy using megavoltage cone-beam computed tomography for treatment of paraspinous tumors in the presence of orthopedic hardware Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 66 323-6
16. Heydarian M, Hoban P W and Beddoe A H 1996 A comparison of dosimetry techniques in stereotactic radiosurgery Phys. Med. Biol. 41 93-110
17. Ho A K, Fu D, Cotrutz C, Hancock S, Chang S, Gibbs I R, Maurer C and Adler J R 2007 A study of the accuracy of spinal radiosurgery using skeletal structure tracking Neurosurgery (Operative Neurosurgery) 60 147-56
18. IPSM 1988 Patient dosimetry techniques in diagnostic radiology Report No. 53 (New York: IPSM)
19. Karaiskos P et al 2005 Dose verification of single shot gamma knife applications using VIPAR polymer gel and MRI 2005 Phys. Med. Biol. 50 1235-50
20. Kavanagh B D and Timmerman R D 2006 Stereotactic radiosurgery and stereotactic body radiation therapy: an overview of technical considerations and clinical applications Hematol. Oncol. Clin. North Am. 20 87-95
21. Kuo J S, Yu C, Petrovich A and Apuzzo M L 2003 The CyberKnife stereotactic radiosurgery system: description, installation and an initial evaluation of use and functionality Neurosurgery 53 1235-9
22. Lightstone A W, Benedict S H, Bova F J, Solberg T D and Stern R L 2005 Intracranial stereotactic positioning systems: report of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine Radiation Therapy Committee Task Group No. 68 Med. Phys. 32 2380-98
23. Mehta M P, Tsao M N, Whelan T J, Morris D E, Hayman J A, Flickinger J C, Millis M, Rogers C L and Souhami L 2005 The American society for therapeutic radiology and oncology (ASTRO) evidence-based review of the role of radiosurgery for brain metastases Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 63 37-46
24. Muacevic A, Staehler M, Drexler C, Wowra B, Reiser M and Tonn J-C 2006 Technical description, phantom accuracy, and clinical feasibility for fiducial free real-time image-guided spinal radiosurgery J. Neurosurg. Spine 5 303-12
25. Murphy M J 2002 Fiducial-based targeting accuracy for external-beam radiotherapy Med. Phys. 29 334-44
26. Murphy J M and Cox R S 1996 The accuracy of dose localization for an image-guided frameless radiosurgery system Med. Phys. 23 2043-9
27. Nath R, Biggs P J, Bova F J, Ling C C, Purdy J A, Van de Geijn J and Weinhous M S 1994 AAPM code of practice for radiotherapy accelerators: report of AAPM Radiation Therapy Task Group No. 45 Med. Phys. 21 1093-121
28. Nishizaki T et al 2006 The role of cyberknife radiosurgery/radiotherapy for brain metastases of multiple or large-size tumors Minim. Invasive Neurosurg. 49 203-9
29. Pantelis E, Antypas C, Petrokokkinos L, Karaiskos P, Papagiannis P, Kozicki M, Georgiou E, Sakelliou L and Seimenis I 2008 Dosimetric characterization of CyberKnife radiosurgical photon beams using polymer gels Med. Phys. 35 2312-20
30. Pappas E, Maris T G, Papadakis A, Zacharopoulou F, Damilakis I, Papanikolaou N and Gourtsogiannis N 2006 Experimental determination of the effect of detector size on profile measurements in narrow photon beams Med. Phys. 33 3700-10
31. Pappas E, Petrokokkinos L, Angelopoulos A, Maris T G, Kozicki M, Dalezios I and Kouloulias V 2005 Relative output factor measurements of a 5 mm diameter radiosurgical photon beam using polymer gel dosimetry Med. Phys. 32 1513-20
32. Romanelli P, Schaal D W and Adler J R 2006a Image-guided radiosurgical ablation of intra- and extra-cranial lesions Technol. Cancer Res. Treat. 5 421-8
33. Romanelli P, Schweikard A, Schlaefer A and Adler J 2006b Computer aided robotic radiosurgery Comput. Aided Surg. 11 161-74
34. Rossi R P, Lin P-J P, Rauch P L and Strauss K J 1985 Performance specifications and acceptance testing for x-ray generators and automatic exposure control devices AAPM Report 14 (New York: American Association of Physicists in Medicine, American Institute of Physics)
35. Schell M C, Bova F J, Larson D A, Leavitt D D, Lutz W R, Podgorsak E B and Wu A 1995 Stereotactic radiosurgery AAPM Report No. 54 (Madison, WI: Medical Physics Publishing)
36. Schweikard A, Shiomi H and Adler J 2004 Respiratory tracking in radiosurgery Med. Phys. 31 2738-41
37. Shepard S J et al 2002 Quality control in diagnostic radiology AAPM Report No. 74 (Madison, WI: Medical Physics Publishing)
38. Sorcini B and Tilikidis A 2006 Clinical application of image-guided radiotherapy, IGRT (on the Varian OBI platform) Cancer Radiother. 10 252-7
39. Strassmann G, Braun I, Kress O, Richter D, Neidel H O, Klose K J, An H, Vogel B, Rose F and Engenhart-Cabillic R 2006 Accuracy of single-session extracranial radiotherapy for simple shaped lung tumor or metastasis using fast 3-D CT treatment planning Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 66 576-82
40. Tsao M N, Mehta M P, Whelan T J, Morris D E, Hayman J A, Flickinger J C, Millis M, Rogers C L and Souhami L 2005 The American society for therapeutic radiology and oncology (ASTRO) evidence-based review of the role of radiosurgery for malignant glioma Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 63 47-55
41. Wilcox E E and Daskalov G M 2007 Evaluation of Gafchromic® EBT film for CyberKnife® dosimetry Med. Phys. 34 1967-74
42. Wu Q, Liang J and Yan D 2006 Application of dose compensation in image-guided radiotherapy of prostate cancer Phys. Med. Biol. 21 1405-19
43. Wurm R and Okunieff P 2006 Intracranial and extracranial stereotactic radiosurgery and radiotherapy Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 66 S1-S2
44. Yu C, Jozsef G, Apuzzo M L J and Petrovich Z 2004a Measurements of the relative output factors for CyberKnife collimators Neurosurgery 54 157-62
45. Yu C, Main W, Taylor D, Kuduvalli G, Apuzzo M and Adler J R 2004b An anthropomorphic phantom study of the accuracy of CyberKnife spinal radiosurgery Neurosurgery 55 1138-46