Advances in Radiosurgery

Opening Lecture: Lars Leksell’s Vision — Radiosurgery.- Linear Accelerator Radiosurgery of Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations: Current Status.- Radiosurgery of Carotid-Cavernous Fistulae.- Radiosurgery Dose Distributions: Theoretical Impact of Inhomogeneities on Lesion Control.- Intrinsic and Extrinsic Characteristics of Human Tumors Relevant to Radiosurgery: Comparative Cellular Radiosensitivity and Hypoxic Percentages.- A Universal, Multi-Modality Localization System for Animal Radiosurgery.- Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Pituitary Adenomas: Imaging, Visual and Endocrine Results.- Tumour Volume Reduction Following Gamma Knife Radiosurgery: The Relationship Between X-ray and Histological Findings.- Radiosensitive Craniopharyngiomas: The Role of Radiosurgery.- A Comparison of Survival Between Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Implants for Malignant Astrocytomas.- Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Tectal Low-Grade Gliomas.- Stereotactic Radiosurgery of Deeply Seated Low Grade Gliomas.- Radiosurgical Treatment of Gliomas of the Diencephalon.- Long-Term Follow-up of Gliomas Treated with Fractionated Stereotactic Irradiation.- Linac Radiosurgery in Brain Metastases.- Gamma Knife Radiosurgery of a Series of Only Minimally Selected Metastatic Brain Tumours.- Long-Term Follow-up Study of Conventional Irradiation for Brain Tumours in Children: A Role for Radiosurgery.- Stereotactic Radiosurgery of Vestibular Schwannomas with a Linear Accelerator.- The Early Effects of Gamma Knife on 40 Cases of Acoustic Neurinoma.- Quality Assurance Programme on Stereotactic Radiosurgery.- Quality Assurance for Non-Invasive Patient Fixation During Stereotactic Convergent Beam Irradiation.- Medial Thalamotomy with the Leksell Gamma Knife for Treatment of Chronic Pain.- Radiosurgery of Epilepsy: Long-Term Results.- Application of Stereotactic Radiosurgery to the Head and Neck Region.- Stereotactic Radiotherapy: a Technique for Dose Optimization and Escalation for Intracranial Tumors.- Index of Key words.