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Mainly, the flexibility of the CyberKnife robotic arm, along with precision image guidance technology, allows the system to reach areas of the body that are unreachable with other radiosurgery systems. Secondly, CyberKnife does not use an invasive
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Through the use of continuous imaging, the CyberKnife® of HOA is able to compensate for patient movement, making uncomfortable head frames obsolete. Also, the CyberKnife® of HOA uses a robotic arm as a radiation source, so many different body parts
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The CyberKnife is the first and only robotic stereotactic radiosurgery system designed to treat tumors anywhere in the body, including the brain, spine, lung, kidney, liver, pancreas and prostate. It delivers high doses of radiation with pin-point,
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The CyberKnife® System received clearance from the FDA in July 1999 for the treatment of head and neck tumors. In October 2001, the FDA extended its clearance to include the treatment of tumors and other conditions anywhere in the body.
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A8: The treatment time per session ranges from 30 to 90 minutes (including patient setup, beam-on and beam-off time) depending on the dose delivered and the complexity of the tumor shape. Physicians may elect to treat a patient with a single or a
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A7: IMRT, Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy, is a form of radiation therapy incorporating multi-leaf collimators on standard gantry-based linac delivery systems to better "shape" the radiation beams to the lesion volume. IMRT also utilizes
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A5: The CyberKnife® System uses a combination of image guidance and computer controlled robotics to continuously track, detect and correct for tumor and patient movement throughout the treatment. Because of the extreme precision and accuracy of the
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A4: The CyberKnife® System has been cleared by the FDA to treat tumors anywhere in the body where radiation treatment is indicated. Extracranial tumors that have been treated by the CyberKnife® System include tumors of the spine, lung, prostate,
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A3: The CyberKnife® System's intelligent robotics enables the system to treat tumors that are difficult to reach with more conventional, frame-based systems. The CyberKnife® System is the only robotic radiosurgery system that utilizes the skeletal
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The CyberKnife® System utilizes radiation technology that has been proven for over 30 years. Additionally, over 15,000 patients have received CyberKnife® treatments worldwide. There are many studies showing excellent results with CyberKnife
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