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Article: Computer Program Lends New Precision To Gamma Knife Surgery.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- March 6, 2001
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2001 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
In a promising new research effort, a mathematical program is helping automate and fine tune the arduous process of treating brain tumors with radiation surgery.
Currently the procedure presents doctors with this manual task: develop a treatment plan that bombards the entire tumor, minimizes exposure outside the target, and avoids sensitive brain structures. The job must be done by analyzing scores of two-dimensional brain images and completed within 40 minutes, as the patient waits in an uncomfortable head frame.
Now, Michael Ferris, a computer scientist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is ...