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  title info:
    title: Robotic Radiosurgery. Treating Prostate Cancer and Related Genitourinary Applications
  name:
    name part: Ponsky, Lee E.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Fuller, Donald B.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Meier, Robert M.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Ma, Charlie.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XX, 245 p. 55 illus., 39 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among North American and European men, but its treatment continues to be problematic owing to serious side-effects, including erectile dysfunction, urinary incontinence, and potential lower GI complicatons. Robotic radiosurgery offers a novel, rapid, non-invasive outpatient treatment option for prostate cancer that combines robotics, advanced image-guided motion detection, and automated real-time corrective spatial positioning with submillimeter precision. This book examines all aspects of the treatment of prostate cancer with robotic radiosurgery. After introductory sections on radiosurgery as a multidisciplinary practice and specific issues relating to prostate cancer, the important challenge posed by prostate motion when administering radiation therapy is examined in depth, with detailed discussion as to how image-guided robotic radiosurgery overcomes this problem by continously identifying the precise location of the prostate throughout the course of treatment. A further major section is devoted to a discussion of techniques and potential radiobiological and clinical advantages of hypofractionated radiation delivery by means of robotic radiosurgery systems. The book closes by discussing other emerging genitourinary applications of robotic radiosurgery. All of the authors are experts in their field who present a persuasive case for this fascinating technique.
  table of contents: Section 1: Introduction to Radiosurgery as a Multidisciplinary Practice.-Section 2: Historical and Current Prostate Cancer Issues -- Section 3: Prostate Motion -- Section 4: Hypofractionated Radiation Deliver -- Section 5: Emerging Applications. .
  note: edited by Lee E. Ponsky, Donald B. Fuller, Robert M. Meier, Charlie Ma.
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Radiology
  subject:
    topic: Radiotherapy
  subject:
    topic: Oncology
  subject:
    topic: Surgery
  subject:
    topic: Urology
  subject:
    topic: Medicine & Public Health
  subject:
    topic: Imaging / Radiology
  subject:
    topic: Oncology
  subject:
    topic: Urology
  subject:
    topic: Surgery
  subject:
    topic: Radiotherapy
  classification: R895-920
  classification: 616.0757
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783642114953
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11495-3
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