Radiosurgery for Brain Tumors

Dear Colleagues,

The incidence of cancer is increasing worldwide. As a noninvasive alternative to surgery, radiosurgery uses high-energy X-rays or protons to destroy tumors. As one of the treatment modalities, radiosurgery plays a crucial role in managing malignant brain tumors. Radiosurgery can also be used for the effective treatment of benign brain tumors such as meningiomas or pituitary adenoma.

Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) uses many precisely focused radiation beams for the accurate targeting of tumors while minimizing damage to the surrounding organs at risk, such as healthy brain tissue, brain stem, chiasm, optic nerves, eyes, the cochlea, and pituitary gland. Nowadays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has significantly improved the delineation of brain tumors and has allowed for progress to be made in terms of irradiation using magnetic resonance linac (MRL).

We cordially invite you to submit your cutting-edge research and review articles to this Special Issue, which aims to encompass new research articles and timely reviews on all aspects of brain tumors’ radiosurgery treatment with photons or protons.

Dr. Anna Petoukhova
Guest Editor

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• radiosurgery with photons and protons
• stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS)
• brain tumors
• gliomas
• meningioma
• pituitary adenoma
• magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
• magnetic resonance linac (MRL)