31. DIRAC : IAEA 7600 RT CENTERS IN WORLD
• IAEA’s Directory of Radiotherapy Centres (DIRAC), which is
the world’s authoritative source of information on
radiotherapy infrastructure and centres. Database includes
more than 7600 radiotherapy centres and about 13000
teletherapy and 2600 brachytherapy in the world.
• In high income countries, one radiotherapy machine is
available for every 1,20,000 people.
• In middle income countries, one machine serves over 1
million people.
• In low income countries, about 5 million people over a
single radiotherapy machine.
46. RADIOSURGERY
First Ablative techniques:1951 Lars Leksell
Leksell Gamma thalamotomy in two cases of intractable pain.
Acta Chir Scand.
GammaKnife:1989 201 Co-60 sources
Lunsford Stereotactic radiosurgery of the brain using the first US 201
Cobalt- 60 source Gamma Knife. Neurosurgery 24, 1989
Linac Based 1985 F. Colombo
CyberKnife 1997 Adler
The Cyberknife: a frameless robotic system for radiosurgery. Stereo &
Funct NeuroSurg 69, 1997
47.
48.
49.
50. Evolution of Radiation Therapy
• Drive to increase conformal delivery to irregular
tumour targets & to reduce toxicity.
1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
First Linac Image FusionCerrobend
blocks
Computerized 3D CT
treatment planning
IMRT
dose-
painting
Stereotactic
Radiotherapy
IGRT
Multileaf collimator
Standard
collimator
51. ERA’S IN RADIOTHERAPY
DXT CRT IMRT IGRT Particle RT
ORTHO VOLTAGE
ERA
MEGA VOLTAGE
ERA
PARTICLE THERAPY
ERA
1950’S
COBALT-60
2000+ 2010+
LINAC
75. GATED RAPIDARC (VMAT)
• Next evolutionary step Compensates for tumor motion
• Expands application of RapidArc to moving tumors (lung)
• Enables fast treatments of tumors that move with
respiration Minimizes exposure to healthy tissues
• Provide more options for treating complex cancer cases
including lung, breast, liver, abdomen, head and neck
• IMRT, IGRT, RapidArc, Gated RapidArc, SBRT, SRS
82. Stereotactic Body Radiosurgery
SBRT is the use of high doses of radiation delivered to
tumors in the liver, lung and spine.
Single dose or in a limited treatments (2-5 doses).
83. INDICATION OF SBRT/ SRS
SBRT: Early Lung Ca, Metastatic Liver n Spine tumor,
Re-Radiation or Recurrent tumor, Localized Prostate Ca,
Pancreatic Ca, Brain metastases (5 or less).
SRS: AVM, Vestibular Schwannoma, Meningioma
Trigeminal neuralgia, Recurrent GBM, Acoustic neuroma
Pituitary adenoma, Glomus tumors, Hemangioblastoma.