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| - Why Choose Radiosurgery? |
| - Benefits of Novalis Tx |
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Why Choose Radiosurgery?
Under the leadership of the center's medical director, Dr. Lori Coleman, patients will be cared for by some of the region's leading surgeons and radiation oncologists who provide a team approach to treatment. San Diego Radiosurgery has one of the first Novalis Tx machines in the country and offers patients the most advanced form of treatment currently available.
Fast Treatment
There are two reasons why short treatment times can be important - treatment accuracy and patient comfort. The length of treatments with some devices can be extreme, lasting an hour or more, during which the patient must lie as still as possible. Prolonged treatment times can make the entire process even more stressful, and some physicians recommend practicing meditation during the procedure or even prescribe a sedative. Reducing the treatment time also minimizes the time where the patient may make small movements that can affect the overall accuracy of the treatment. Novalis Tx is optimized for the fastest treatment delivery, improving both patient comfort and treatment accuracy. A Novalis Tx treatment or fraction typically lasts only 15-20 minutes. Throughout treatment, Novalis Tx continuously tracks any micro patient movement and allows for automatic adjustment, ultimately increasing the level of accuracy.
Beam-Shaped Radiosurgery
Traditionally, circular beams are used for radiosurgery. The resulting dose of such an approach is a spherical dose volume. As most lesions are very irregular in shape, several of those spherical dose volumes have to be composed together to cover the complex tumor shape. Other systems try to move the circular beam to “paint” the dose into the tumor volume over a time. Both approaches are time consuming and do not ideally tailor the dose to the exact shape of the tumor. This can result in lower than desired irradiation to parts of the tumor and higher than desired irradiation to healthy tissue. Novalis Tx has set a new standard with the most precise beam shaping technology available, shaping each treatment beam to contour the exact shape of the tumor and avoiding normal tissue with highly accurate and homogeneous doses.
