Different Models of CyberKnife
Does anyone know if there are different models of CyberKnife and what they are? I am considering it and would like to know what model the facility I am going to be is using. I think this is a reasonable question. Any thoughts??
David
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sbrt
There are various companies that manufacture equipment that delivers SBRT, Cyberknife is one of them. There are others as well, Novalis being one........Suggest that you goggle SBRT.
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Different SBRT Technologies
Here's a link to a list of currently marketed SBRT devices:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK55712/
Here's a link to a fairly recent NIH published paper which summaraizes the differences between the major SBRT Technologies:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK55723/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK55723/pdf/TOC.pdf
Note that the comparisons made are not limited to use of SBRT w/PCa.
The 3 primary manufacturers of SBRT techology are currently CyberKnife (Accuray), Novalis Shaped Beam and Body Gamma Knife.
http://www.novalis-radiosurgery.com/clinical/prostate-radiotherapy/
http://www.cmsholdings.com/ourservices/equipment/bgk.shtml
There are others (as indicated in the list) but CyberKnife, Novalis and Gamma Knife and the ones I heard about most often when I started looking into this and CK was the one the one that I heard about most frequently.
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ThanksSwingshiftworker said:Different SBRT Technologies
Here's a link to a list of currently marketed SBRT devices:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK55712/
Here's a link to a fairly recent NIH published paper which summaraizes the differences between the major SBRT Technologies:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK55723/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK55723/pdf/TOC.pdf
Note that the comparisons made are not limited to use of SBRT w/PCa.
The 3 primary manufacturers of SBRT techology are currently CyberKnife (Accuray), Novalis Shaped Beam and Body Gamma Knife.
http://www.novalis-radiosurgery.com/clinical/prostate-radiotherapy/
http://www.cmsholdings.com/ourservices/equipment/bgk.shtml
There are others (as indicated in the list) but CyberKnife, Novalis and Gamma Knife and the ones I heard about most often when I started looking into this and CK was the one the one that I heard about most frequently.
Thanks. I will look at these web sites.
David
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