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Michael Torrens Special Topic Seminar GK General Standardization - About Standardization
Caroline Chung Special Topic Seminar GK General Standardization - About Contouring
Ian Paddick Special Topic Seminar GK General Standardization - Treatment Planning
Yoshihisa Kida Early Morning Seminar 2 Vascular Disorders Panel Debate Cavernous Malformations - Panelist
L. Dade Lunsford Early Morning Seminar 2 Vascular Disorders Panel Debate Cavernous Malformations - Introduction
Gabor Nagy Early Morning Seminar 2 Vascular Disorders Panel Debate Cavernous Malformations - Panelist
Josef Novotny Early Morning Seminar 3 Physics & QA Current Practice of the Leksell Gamma Knife small field dosimetry
Guus, Patrick Beute, Hanssens Opening Remarks Miscellaneous Welcome to the 18th Leksell Gamma Knife Society Meeting
Minesh Mehta Invited Speaker GK General How has Radiosurgery Changed Neurosurgery and Radiation Oncology?
William H. Slattery III Panel Debate Benign Tumors Vestibular Schwannomas - The Neurotologist's Approach
L. Dade Lunsford Panel Debate Benign Tumors Vestibular Schwannomas - How do patients decide what to do?
Douglas Kondziolka General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Quality of the patient experience during radiosurgery: measurement toward improvement
Yoshiyasu Iwai General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Gamma Knife radiosurgery for vestibular schwannomas associated with neurofibromatosis type 2 - long-term follow-up results
Marc Levivier General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Combined approach for the management of large vestibular schwannomas: planned subtotal resection followed by Gamma Knife surgery in a series of 28 consecutive cases
Antonio Nicolato General Scientific Session Benign Tumors LGKRS in cavernous sinus meningiomas: results on 200 patients with at least 10-year-follow up period
Sabine Mai General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) with Gamma Knife Icon: is a Cone-Beam CT (CBCT) useful when using the G-frame?
Junzhao Sun General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Stereotactic radiosurgery for chordoma: clinical analysis of 49 patients
Cheng-Loong Liang General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Risk of cataractogenesis after Gamma Knife radiosurgery: a nationwide population-based case-control study
Giuseppe Ricciardi General Scientific Session Vascular Disorders Advanced white matter imaging visualization modality for radiosurgery in eloquent brain areas
Stuart Stokes General Scientific Session Vascular Disorders A retrospective analysis of 356 cerebral cavernous venous malformations (CVM) treated with gamma knife: an evidence based dilemma.
Guus Beute General Scientific Session Vascular Disorders Complications in brain AVM treatment and Apolipoprotein E isoforms
Yoshihisa Kida General Scientific Session Vascular Disorders Effects of radiosurgery for symptomatic cavernous malformations in comparison with the real natural history of symptomatic lesions. A multi-institutional retrospective study in Japan
Giorgio Spatola General Scientific Session Vascular Disorders Volume-staged Gamma Knife radiosurgery for treatment of large cerebral AVMs
Masaaki Yamamoto General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders A multi-institutional prospective observational study of SRS for multiple brain metastases (JLGK0901 study): part 2, long-term results of irradiation-related complications and neurocognitive function
Antonella Del Vecchio General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Dose-volume predictors of visual acuity reduction after SRS for uveal melanoma
Shelly X. Bian General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders The impact of lesion number and treatment volume on survival in melanoma brain metastases treated with stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS)
Isabella Zhang General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Quality of Life and locoregional disease control following fractionated Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy in previously irradiated recurrent head and neck cancer
Daniel M. Trifiletti General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Leukoencephalopathy following stereotactic radiosurgery for brain metastases
Tavish Nanda General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders No significant difference in local control and overall survival between adjuvant Stereotactic Radiosurgery and salvage Stereotactic Radiosurgery for brain metastases treated by Gross Total Resection and Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
Yoshihisa Kida General Scientific Session Functional Disorders Radiosurgery for intractable seizure associated with symptomatic cavernous malformations - long term follow-up results
Lucia Schwyzer General Scientific Session Functional Disorders Trigeminal neuralgia secondary to intracranial lesions: a prospective series of 20 consecutive cases
Antonio De Salles General Scientific Session Functional Disorders The role of DTI (Diffusion Tensor Imaging) Pyramidal Tractography in Gamma Knife Thalamotomy Planning
Sameer A. Sheth General Scientific Session Functional Disorders Volumetric analysis of gamma capsulotomy for refractory OCD: lesion location predicts response
Pierre-Yves Borius General Scientific Session Functional Disorders Gamma Knife radiosurgery for glossopharyngeal neuralgia: a bicentric Marseille-Lausanne experience of 21 patients
L. Dade Lunsford General Scientific Session Functional Disorders Early radiosurgery provides superior pain relief for trigeminal neuralgia patients
Francisco Li General Scientific Session Functional Disorders Accuracy of the Gamma Knife treatment coordinates and outcomes for essential tremor
Antonio Nicolato General Scientific Session Ophthalmology LGKRS for the treatment of uveal melanomas: results and complications in 135 patients followed-up for at least two years
Oleg Sinyavskiy General Scientific Session Ophthalmology Microinvasive tumor endoresection in combination with ocular stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS)
Jing Chen General Scientific Session Ophthalmology The early change of protein expression in the rhesus optic nerves injured by a single dose/fractionation stereotactic radiosurgery
Bente Skeie Panel Debate Malignant Disorders Quality of Life and Cognition in Brain Metastases Management
John Hopewell Early Morning Seminar 1 GK General Radiobiology of Radiosurgery - The Theory
Douglas Kondziolka Early Morning Seminar 1 GK General Radiobiology of Radiosurgery - The Practice
Osamu Nagano General Scientific Session Vascular Disorders Treatment strategy of cerebral arteriovenous malformation: Gamma Knife surgery combined endovascular surgery
Sara Rahnema General Scientific Session Vascular Disorders Comparison of linear accelerator (Linac) and Gamma Knife dosimetric indices in the radiosurgical treatment of cerebral AVM patients
James R. Connor General Scientific Session Vascular Disorders Gamma Knife radiosurgery treatment of ‘in vivo’ rabbit model aneurysms
Alexandra Dalechina General Scientific Session Vascular Disorders Application 2D frameless angiography in planning Gamma Knife radiosurgery for AVMs
Alvaro Rochas-Villabona General Scientific Session Vascular Disorders Triple magnetic resonance angiography for confirmation of obliteration following Gamma Knife radiosurgery for arterial-venous malformations of the brain
Bruce E. Pollock General Scientific Session Vascular Disorders Incidence and management of late radiation-induced complications after arteriovenous malformation radiosurgery
Geza Z. Mezey General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Retrospective study of large sporadic vestibular schwannomas (VS) treated with Gamma Knife. Is it worth stretching the boundaries?
Thierry Gevaert General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Dosimetric comparison of different treatment modalities for stereotactic radiosurgery of meningioma
L. Dade Lunsford General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Hearing sub-classification predicts long-term auditory outcomes after radiosurgery for vestibular schwanomma patients with good hearing
Junzhao Sun General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Gamma Knife surgery for trigeminal schwannoma: clinical analysis in 52 cases
Suan Te Li General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Volumetric changes and clinical outcome for petroclival meningiomas after primary treatment with Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
David Mathieu General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Gamma Knife radiosurgery for Koos grade 4 vestibular schwannomas
Sarah Lonneville General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Volumetric and metabolic responses of pituitary adenoma after Gamma Knife surgery
Dan Leksell Pioneer Award Miscellaneous Pioneer Awardee Introduction
David Larson Pioneer Award Miscellaneous Pioneer Awardee Lecture
Christer Lindquist Leksell Lecture Miscellaneous Lars Leksell Lecturer Introduction
John Adler Leksell Lecture Miscellaneous Lars Leksell Lecture
Oleg Sinyavskiy Invited Speaker Ophthalmology SRS for Ocular Disorders - Microinvasive Tumor Endoresection in Combination with Ocular SRS
Ian Rennie Invited Speaker Ophthalmology SRS for Ocular Disorders - Ocular Melanoma and Choroidal Metastases
Gerry Radano Invited Speaker Functional Disorders SRS for OCD - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Gamma Knife Surgery
Steven Rasmussen Invited Speaker Functional Disorders SRS for OCD - Gamma Knife Surgery for Intractable OCD
Antonio Carlos Lopes Invited Speaker Functional Disorders SRS for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Hideyuki Kano General Scientific Session Functional Disorders Stereotactic radiosurgery for glossopharyngeal neuralgia: an international multicenter study
Sebastian Dzierzecki General Scientific Session Functional Disorders Gamma Knife Thalamotomy for Essential Tremor and Parkinson´s Disease
Bernardo Perez General Scientific Session Functional Disorders Gamma Knife posterior hypothalamotomy for refractory aggressiveness
Benjamin Kann General Scientific Session Functional Disorders The impact of cobalt-60 source age on biologically effective dose in Gamma Knife thalamotomy
Antonella del Vecchio General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Statistical analysis of radio-induced effects after SRS for uveal melanoma: a mono-institutional analysis
Masaaki Yamamoto General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Three-stage Gamma Knife treatment for relatively large metastatic brain tumors
Christopher Cifarelli General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Modulation of radio-sensitivity in human glioblastoma via cadherin-based cell-cell interaction
Douglas Kondziolka Early Morning Seminar 1 GK General From randomized trials to Registries - How practice makes real progress
Caroline Chung Early Morning Seminar 1 GK General From clinical trials to real-world evidence: The future is set
Hester Lingsma Early Morning Seminar 1 GK General Big Data - Useful facts or foolish fashion?
Ian Paddick Early Morning Seminar 2 GK General Radiation Related Oncogenesis - The Risk
Dionne Aleman General Scientific Session Physics & QA Robotic path finding techniques in stereotactic radiosurgery treatment optimization
Thierry Gaevert General Scientific Session Physics & QA Frameless targeting of arteriovenous malformations using cerebral vessel tree: evaluation of the vessel tree stability over time
Ruth Smith General Scientific Session Physics & QA Assessment of reproducibility of patient positioning using mask immobilization on the Leksell Gamma Knife Icon
Florian Stieler General Scientific Session Physics & QA Adaptive fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy using Gamma Knife Icon (a-gkFSRT): phantom
Helena Sandström General Scientific Session Physics & QA Assessment of contouring variability using the STAPLE-method and observer sensitivity/specificity parameters
Jonas Johansson General Scientific Session Physics & QA Evaluation of the geometric accuracy of the Leksell Gamma Knife Icon
Yoichi Watanabe General Scientific Session Physics & QA To evaluate systematic difference between TMR10 and convolution based algorithm for autoshielding in GK Perfexion
Yoichi Watanabe General Scientific Session Physics & QA 3D assessment of the effects of high density embolization material on the absorbed dose in the target for Gamma Knife radiosurgery of AVM
Josef Novotny General Scientific Session Physics & QA Assessment of variety detectors for relative output factors measurement of the Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion and independent Monte Carlo calculation
Masaaki Yamamoto General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Complications after stereotactic radiosurgery for brain metastases: incidences and correlating factors
Brandon S. Imber General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Indications and efficacy of Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery for recurrent glioblastoma: two decades of institutional experience
Jack M. Qian General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Radiographic response of melanoma brain metastases to Gamma Knife varies by type of systemic immune checkpoint inhibitor used
Ranjit S. Bindra General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Demonstration of differential clinical radiosensitivity based upon mutation profile in metastatic melanoma treated with stereotactic radiosurgery
Alison Cameron General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Risk of extracranial secondary cancer after radiosurgery: comparison of Gamma Knife Perfexion, Cyberknife and Novalis
Xiaoyu Wang General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Quality of life of patients with brain metastasis who received either surgery with/without whole brain radiotherapy or gamma knife radiosurgery
Amparo Wolf General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders “Cure” of Intracranial Metastases of less than 100 mm3 Treated by Stereotactic Radiosurgery
L. Dade Lunsford Clinical Trials Updates GK General IGKRF - An Update
Martin van den Bent Panel Debate Malignant Disorders Glioblastoma - Pathophysiology of Gliomas
Minesh Mehta Panel Debate Malignant Disorders Glioblastoma - Emerging Approaches
Ian Paddick Invited Speaker GK General Impact of Leksell Gamma Knife ICON on Clinical Practice - Technical Attributes
Alison Cameron Invited Speaker GK General Impact of Leksell Gamma Knife ICON on Clinical Practice - Oncologist's Early Experience
Douglas Kondziolka Invited Speaker GK General Information Guided Radiosurgery - Big Data and Leksell Gamma Knife Registry
Mustafa Aziz Hatiboglu General Scientific Session Imaging The evaluation of auditory pathways using DTI in patients treated with Gamma Knife radiosurgery for acoustic neuroma: a preliminary report
Cecile Renier General Scientific Session Imaging 16-year clinical experience of use of PET metabolic imaging for targeting in Gamma Knife surgery
Cormac Gavin General Scientific Session Imaging Stereotactic diffusion tensor tractography for Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery
Christopher Abraham General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Internal dose escalation increases local control in NSCLC brain metastases
Edward Monaco General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Increasing avoidance of whole brain radiation therapy for brain metastases in favor of stereotactic radiosurgery in patients referred to an experienced Gamma Knife center
Nataniel Lester-Coll General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Cost effectiveness of stereotactic radiosurgery versus whole brain radiation therapy for up to 10 brain metastases
Joshua Silverman General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Survival but not brain metastasis response relates to lung cancer mutation status after radiosurgery
Veronica Chiang General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Impact of deferring radiotherapy in patients with EGFR-mutant lung adenocarcinoma who develop brain metastases
Michael Roach General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Combined intracranial and extracranial stereotactic radiotherapy for oligometastatic non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC)
Xuqun Tang General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Comparison of hearing outcomes between multisession and single-session Gamma Knife radiosurgery for vestibular schwannomas in patients who retain serviceable hearing: a single-center, case-matched study
Michael Torrens General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Visual function after Gamma Knife treatment of meningiomas examined in relation to dose/volume analysis of dose to optic pathways
Hidefumi Jokura General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Long-term outcome of Gamma Knife radiosurgery for vestibular schwannomas
Vincent Bulthuis General Scientific Session Benign Tumors 1p36 loss is associated with regrowth of WHO grade I meningiomas after Gamma Knife radiosurgery
Herwin Speckter General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Differences in fractional anisotropy predict responsiveness of meningiomas to Gamma Knife radiosurgery
Constantin Tuleasca General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Acute effect after Gamma Knife surgery for vestibular schwannomas - a prospective series of 35 consecutive cases
Masaaki Yamamoto General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Long-term follow-up results of Gamma Knife radiosurgery for pituitary tumors touching/compressing the optic apparatus
Pietro Mortini General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Tumor control rate in a large series of 543 patients treated by Gamma Knife radiosurgery for a pituitary adenoma
Penny Sneed Early Morning Seminar 1 GK General Normal Tissue Dose and its Dependence on Radiosurgery Platform
Paul Sperduto Early Morning Seminar 2 GK General The Abscopal Effect: Radiation-Induced Immune Enhancement
Penny Sneed Panel Debate GK General Fractionation - AVMs
Arjun Sahgal Panel Debate GK General Fractionation - Brain Metastases
Pantelis Karaiskos General Scientific Session Physics & QA Use of an innovative patient-specific plan verification methodology towards highlighting treatment effectiveness in gamma knife SRS treatments
Lucy Winch General Scientific Session Physics & QA Commissioning and end-to-end testing of the Leksell Gamma Knife® Icon™
Silvia Calusi General Scientific Session Physics & QA γTools: a modular multifunction phantom for quality assurance in Gamma Knife treatments
Paula L. Petti General Scientific Session Physics & QA AAPM TG178: towards the recommendation of a standard dosimetry protocol for Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery
Yoshimasa Mori General Scientific Session Physics & QA Dosimetric comparison of stereotactic radiosurgery for multiple brain metastasis between with GammaPlan and with Automatic Brain Metastasis Planning Element
Monique van Prooijen General Scientific Session Physics & QA Perfexion sector alignment tests using panoramic films
Yoshiyasu Iwai General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Functional outcomes of surgical resection of vestibular schwannomas after failed gamma knife radiosurgery
Theodor S. Vesagas General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Measures of optic nerve dose associated with visual field abnormalities after Gamma Knife surgery for pituitary adenomas
Toshinori Hasegawa General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Gamma Knife surgery for patients with jugular foramen schwannomas: a multi-institutional retrospective study in Japan (JLGK1302)
Nicolas Massager General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Repeat Gamma Knife surgery for vestibular schwannomas
Michael Torrens General Scientific Session Benign Tumors The significance of dosimetry in the treatment of meningiomas by radiosurgery
Alison Cameron General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Fractionated Gamma Knife® Icon™ treatment for pituitary adenoma abutting the optic apparatus results in a significantly lower dose to organs at risk compared to Conformal Radiotherapy/VMAT
Michael McDermott Clinical Trials Updates GK General ROSE
James R. Connor Clinical Trials Updates GK General Aneurysms
Sandra Vermeulen Clinical Trials Updates GK General Essential Tremor
Jeroen Verheul Future Studies GK General Vestibular Schwannomas
Joanna Zakrzewska Future Studies GK General Trigeminal Neuralgia
Alessandra Gorgulho Future Studies GK General Pituitary Tumors
Guus, Patrick Beute, Hanssens Concluding Remarks Miscellaneous Key Meeting Takeaways
Michael Torrens Special Topic Seminar GK General Standardization - About Standardization
Caroline Chung Special Topic Seminar GK General Standardization - About Contouring
Ian Paddick Special Topic Seminar GK General Standardization - Treatment Planning
Yoshihisa Kida Early Morning Seminar 2 Vascular Disorders Panel Debate Cavernous Malformations - Panelist
L. Dade Lunsford Early Morning Seminar 2 Vascular Disorders Panel Debate Cavernous Malformations - Introduction
Gabor Nagy Early Morning Seminar 2 Vascular Disorders Panel Debate Cavernous Malformations - Panelist
Josef Novotny Early Morning Seminar 3 Physics & QA Current Practice of the Leksell Gamma Knife small field dosimetry
Guus, Patrick Beute, Hanssens Opening Remarks Miscellaneous Welcome to the 18th Leksell Gamma Knife Society Meeting
Minesh Mehta Invited Speaker GK General How has Radiosurgery Changed Neurosurgery and Radiation Oncology?
William H. Slattery III Panel Debate Benign Tumors Vestibular Schwannomas - The Neurotologist's Approach
L. Dade Lunsford Panel Debate Benign Tumors Vestibular Schwannomas - How do patients decide what to do?
Douglas Kondziolka General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Quality of the patient experience during radiosurgery: measurement toward improvement
Yoshiyasu Iwai General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Gamma Knife radiosurgery for vestibular schwannomas associated with neurofibromatosis type 2 - long-term follow-up results
Marc Levivier General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Combined approach for the management of large vestibular schwannomas: planned subtotal resection followed by Gamma Knife surgery in a series of 28 consecutive cases
Antonio Nicolato General Scientific Session Benign Tumors LGKRS in cavernous sinus meningiomas: results on 200 patients with at least 10-year-follow up period
Sabine Mai General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) with Gamma Knife Icon: is a Cone-Beam CT (CBCT) useful when using the G-frame?
Junzhao Sun General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Stereotactic radiosurgery for chordoma: clinical analysis of 49 patients
Cheng-Loong Liang General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Risk of cataractogenesis after Gamma Knife radiosurgery: a nationwide population-based case-control study
Giuseppe Ricciardi General Scientific Session Vascular Disorders Advanced white matter imaging visualization modality for radiosurgery in eloquent brain areas
Stuart Stokes General Scientific Session Vascular Disorders A retrospective analysis of 356 cerebral cavernous venous malformations (CVM) treated with gamma knife: an evidence based dilemma.
Guus Beute General Scientific Session Vascular Disorders Complications in brain AVM treatment and Apolipoprotein E isoforms
Yoshihisa Kida General Scientific Session Vascular Disorders Effects of radiosurgery for symptomatic cavernous malformations in comparison with the real natural history of symptomatic lesions. A multi-institutional retrospective study in Japan
Giorgio Spatola General Scientific Session Vascular Disorders Volume-staged Gamma Knife radiosurgery for treatment of large cerebral AVMs
Masaaki Yamamoto General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders A multi-institutional prospective observational study of SRS for multiple brain metastases (JLGK0901 study): part 2, long-term results of irradiation-related complications and neurocognitive function
Antonella Del Vecchio General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Dose-volume predictors of visual acuity reduction after SRS for uveal melanoma
Shelly X. Bian General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders The impact of lesion number and treatment volume on survival in melanoma brain metastases treated with stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS)
Isabella Zhang General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Quality of Life and locoregional disease control following fractionated Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy in previously irradiated recurrent head and neck cancer
Daniel M. Trifiletti General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Leukoencephalopathy following stereotactic radiosurgery for brain metastases
Tavish Nanda General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders No significant difference in local control and overall survival between adjuvant Stereotactic Radiosurgery and salvage Stereotactic Radiosurgery for brain metastases treated by Gross Total Resection and Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
Yoshihisa Kida General Scientific Session Functional Disorders Radiosurgery for intractable seizure associated with symptomatic cavernous malformations - long term follow-up results
Lucia Schwyzer General Scientific Session Functional Disorders Trigeminal neuralgia secondary to intracranial lesions: a prospective series of 20 consecutive cases
Antonio De Salles General Scientific Session Functional Disorders The role of DTI (Diffusion Tensor Imaging) Pyramidal Tractography in Gamma Knife Thalamotomy Planning
Sameer A. Sheth General Scientific Session Functional Disorders Volumetric analysis of gamma capsulotomy for refractory OCD: lesion location predicts response
Pierre-Yves Borius General Scientific Session Functional Disorders Gamma Knife radiosurgery for glossopharyngeal neuralgia: a bicentric Marseille-Lausanne experience of 21 patients
L. Dade Lunsford General Scientific Session Functional Disorders Early radiosurgery provides superior pain relief for trigeminal neuralgia patients
Francisco Li General Scientific Session Functional Disorders Accuracy of the Gamma Knife treatment coordinates and outcomes for essential tremor
Antonio Nicolato General Scientific Session Ophthalmology LGKRS for the treatment of uveal melanomas: results and complications in 135 patients followed-up for at least two years
Oleg Sinyavskiy General Scientific Session Ophthalmology Microinvasive tumor endoresection in combination with ocular stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS)
Jing Chen General Scientific Session Ophthalmology The early change of protein expression in the rhesus optic nerves injured by a single dose/fractionation stereotactic radiosurgery
Bente Skeie Panel Debate Malignant Disorders Quality of Life and Cognition in Brain Metastases Management
John Hopewell Early Morning Seminar 1 GK General Radiobiology of Radiosurgery - The Theory
Douglas Kondziolka Early Morning Seminar 1 GK General Radiobiology of Radiosurgery - The Practice
Osamu Nagano General Scientific Session Vascular Disorders Treatment strategy of cerebral arteriovenous malformation: Gamma Knife surgery combined endovascular surgery
Sara Rahnema General Scientific Session Vascular Disorders Comparison of linear accelerator (Linac) and Gamma Knife dosimetric indices in the radiosurgical treatment of cerebral AVM patients
James R. Connor General Scientific Session Vascular Disorders Gamma Knife radiosurgery treatment of ‘in vivo’ rabbit model aneurysms
Alexandra Dalechina General Scientific Session Vascular Disorders Application 2D frameless angiography in planning Gamma Knife radiosurgery for AVMs
Alvaro Rochas-Villabona General Scientific Session Vascular Disorders Triple magnetic resonance angiography for confirmation of obliteration following Gamma Knife radiosurgery for arterial-venous malformations of the brain
Bruce E. Pollock General Scientific Session Vascular Disorders Incidence and management of late radiation-induced complications after arteriovenous malformation radiosurgery
Geza Z. Mezey General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Retrospective study of large sporadic vestibular schwannomas (VS) treated with Gamma Knife. Is it worth stretching the boundaries?
Thierry Gevaert General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Dosimetric comparison of different treatment modalities for stereotactic radiosurgery of meningioma
L. Dade Lunsford General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Hearing sub-classification predicts long-term auditory outcomes after radiosurgery for vestibular schwanomma patients with good hearing
Junzhao Sun General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Gamma Knife surgery for trigeminal schwannoma: clinical analysis in 52 cases
Suan Te Li General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Volumetric changes and clinical outcome for petroclival meningiomas after primary treatment with Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
David Mathieu General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Gamma Knife radiosurgery for Koos grade 4 vestibular schwannomas
Sarah Lonneville General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Volumetric and metabolic responses of pituitary adenoma after Gamma Knife surgery
Dan Leksell Pioneer Award Miscellaneous Pioneer Awardee Introduction
David Larson Pioneer Award Miscellaneous Pioneer Awardee Lecture
Christer Lindquist Leksell Lecture Miscellaneous Lars Leksell Lecturer Introduction
John Adler Leksell Lecture Miscellaneous Lars Leksell Lecture
Oleg Sinyavskiy Invited Speaker Ophthalmology SRS for Ocular Disorders - Microinvasive Tumor Endoresection in Combination with Ocular SRS
Ian Rennie Invited Speaker Ophthalmology SRS for Ocular Disorders - Ocular Melanoma and Choroidal Metastases
Gerry Radano Invited Speaker Functional Disorders SRS for OCD - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Gamma Knife Surgery
Steven Rasmussen Invited Speaker Functional Disorders SRS for OCD - Gamma Knife Surgery for Intractable OCD
Antonio Carlos Lopes Invited Speaker Functional Disorders SRS for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Hideyuki Kano General Scientific Session Functional Disorders Stereotactic radiosurgery for glossopharyngeal neuralgia: an international multicenter study
Sebastian Dzierzecki General Scientific Session Functional Disorders Gamma Knife Thalamotomy for Essential Tremor and Parkinson´s Disease
Bernardo Perez General Scientific Session Functional Disorders Gamma Knife posterior hypothalamotomy for refractory aggressiveness
Benjamin Kann General Scientific Session Functional Disorders The impact of cobalt-60 source age on biologically effective dose in Gamma Knife thalamotomy
Antonella del Vecchio General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Statistical analysis of radio-induced effects after SRS for uveal melanoma: a mono-institutional analysis
Masaaki Yamamoto General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Three-stage Gamma Knife treatment for relatively large metastatic brain tumors
Christopher Cifarelli General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Modulation of radio-sensitivity in human glioblastoma via cadherin-based cell-cell interaction
Douglas Kondziolka Early Morning Seminar 1 GK General From randomized trials to Registries - How practice makes real progress
Caroline Chung Early Morning Seminar 1 GK General From clinical trials to real-world evidence: The future is set
Hester Lingsma Early Morning Seminar 1 GK General Big Data - Useful facts or foolish fashion?
Ian Paddick Early Morning Seminar 2 GK General Radiation Related Oncogenesis - The Risk
Dionne Aleman General Scientific Session Physics & QA Robotic path finding techniques in stereotactic radiosurgery treatment optimization
Thierry Gaevert General Scientific Session Physics & QA Frameless targeting of arteriovenous malformations using cerebral vessel tree: evaluation of the vessel tree stability over time
Ruth Smith General Scientific Session Physics & QA Assessment of reproducibility of patient positioning using mask immobilization on the Leksell Gamma Knife Icon
Florian Stieler General Scientific Session Physics & QA Adaptive fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy using Gamma Knife Icon (a-gkFSRT): phantom
Helena Sandström General Scientific Session Physics & QA Assessment of contouring variability using the STAPLE-method and observer sensitivity/specificity parameters
Jonas Johansson General Scientific Session Physics & QA Evaluation of the geometric accuracy of the Leksell Gamma Knife Icon
Yoichi Watanabe General Scientific Session Physics & QA To evaluate systematic difference between TMR10 and convolution based algorithm for autoshielding in GK Perfexion
Yoichi Watanabe General Scientific Session Physics & QA 3D assessment of the effects of high density embolization material on the absorbed dose in the target for Gamma Knife radiosurgery of AVM
Josef Novotny General Scientific Session Physics & QA Assessment of variety detectors for relative output factors measurement of the Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion and independent Monte Carlo calculation
Masaaki Yamamoto General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Complications after stereotactic radiosurgery for brain metastases: incidences and correlating factors
Brandon S. Imber General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Indications and efficacy of Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery for recurrent glioblastoma: two decades of institutional experience
Jack M. Qian General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Radiographic response of melanoma brain metastases to Gamma Knife varies by type of systemic immune checkpoint inhibitor used
Ranjit S. Bindra General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Demonstration of differential clinical radiosensitivity based upon mutation profile in metastatic melanoma treated with stereotactic radiosurgery
Alison Cameron General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Risk of extracranial secondary cancer after radiosurgery: comparison of Gamma Knife Perfexion, Cyberknife and Novalis
Xiaoyu Wang General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Quality of life of patients with brain metastasis who received either surgery with/without whole brain radiotherapy or gamma knife radiosurgery
Amparo Wolf General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders “Cure” of Intracranial Metastases of less than 100 mm3 Treated by Stereotactic Radiosurgery
L. Dade Lunsford Clinical Trials Updates GK General IGKRF - An Update
Martin van den Bent Panel Debate Malignant Disorders Glioblastoma - Pathophysiology of Gliomas
Minesh Mehta Panel Debate Malignant Disorders Glioblastoma - Emerging Approaches
Ian Paddick Invited Speaker GK General Impact of Leksell Gamma Knife ICON on Clinical Practice - Technical Attributes
Alison Cameron Invited Speaker GK General Impact of Leksell Gamma Knife ICON on Clinical Practice - Oncologist's Early Experience
Douglas Kondziolka Invited Speaker GK General Information Guided Radiosurgery - Big Data and Leksell Gamma Knife Registry
Mustafa Aziz Hatiboglu General Scientific Session Imaging The evaluation of auditory pathways using DTI in patients treated with Gamma Knife radiosurgery for acoustic neuroma: a preliminary report
Cecile Renier General Scientific Session Imaging 16-year clinical experience of use of PET metabolic imaging for targeting in Gamma Knife surgery
Cormac Gavin General Scientific Session Imaging Stereotactic diffusion tensor tractography for Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery
Christopher Abraham General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Internal dose escalation increases local control in NSCLC brain metastases
Edward Monaco General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Increasing avoidance of whole brain radiation therapy for brain metastases in favor of stereotactic radiosurgery in patients referred to an experienced Gamma Knife center
Nataniel Lester-Coll General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Cost effectiveness of stereotactic radiosurgery versus whole brain radiation therapy for up to 10 brain metastases
Joshua Silverman General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Survival but not brain metastasis response relates to lung cancer mutation status after radiosurgery
Veronica Chiang General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Impact of deferring radiotherapy in patients with EGFR-mutant lung adenocarcinoma who develop brain metastases
Michael Roach General Scientific Session Malignant Disorders Combined intracranial and extracranial stereotactic radiotherapy for oligometastatic non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC)
Xuqun Tang General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Comparison of hearing outcomes between multisession and single-session Gamma Knife radiosurgery for vestibular schwannomas in patients who retain serviceable hearing: a single-center, case-matched study
Michael Torrens General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Visual function after Gamma Knife treatment of meningiomas examined in relation to dose/volume analysis of dose to optic pathways
Hidefumi Jokura General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Long-term outcome of Gamma Knife radiosurgery for vestibular schwannomas
Vincent Bulthuis General Scientific Session Benign Tumors 1p36 loss is associated with regrowth of WHO grade I meningiomas after Gamma Knife radiosurgery
Herwin Speckter General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Differences in fractional anisotropy predict responsiveness of meningiomas to Gamma Knife radiosurgery
Constantin Tuleasca General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Acute effect after Gamma Knife surgery for vestibular schwannomas - a prospective series of 35 consecutive cases
Masaaki Yamamoto General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Long-term follow-up results of Gamma Knife radiosurgery for pituitary tumors touching/compressing the optic apparatus
Pietro Mortini General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Tumor control rate in a large series of 543 patients treated by Gamma Knife radiosurgery for a pituitary adenoma
Penny Sneed Early Morning Seminar 1 GK General Normal Tissue Dose and its Dependence on Radiosurgery Platform
Paul Sperduto Early Morning Seminar 2 GK General The Abscopal Effect: Radiation-Induced Immune Enhancement
Penny Sneed Panel Debate GK General Fractionation - AVMs
Arjun Sahgal Panel Debate GK General Fractionation - Brain Metastases
Pantelis Karaiskos General Scientific Session Physics & QA Use of an innovative patient-specific plan verification methodology towards highlighting treatment effectiveness in gamma knife SRS treatments
Lucy Winch General Scientific Session Physics & QA Commissioning and end-to-end testing of the Leksell Gamma Knife® Icon™
Silvia Calusi General Scientific Session Physics & QA γTools: a modular multifunction phantom for quality assurance in Gamma Knife treatments
Paula L. Petti General Scientific Session Physics & QA AAPM TG178: towards the recommendation of a standard dosimetry protocol for Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery
Yoshimasa Mori General Scientific Session Physics & QA Dosimetric comparison of stereotactic radiosurgery for multiple brain metastasis between with GammaPlan and with Automatic Brain Metastasis Planning Element
Monique van Prooijen General Scientific Session Physics & QA Perfexion sector alignment tests using panoramic films
Yoshiyasu Iwai General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Functional outcomes of surgical resection of vestibular schwannomas after failed gamma knife radiosurgery
Theodor S. Vesagas General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Measures of optic nerve dose associated with visual field abnormalities after Gamma Knife surgery for pituitary adenomas
Toshinori Hasegawa General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Gamma Knife surgery for patients with jugular foramen schwannomas: a multi-institutional retrospective study in Japan (JLGK1302)
Nicolas Massager General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Repeat Gamma Knife surgery for vestibular schwannomas
Michael Torrens General Scientific Session Benign Tumors The significance of dosimetry in the treatment of meningiomas by radiosurgery
Alison Cameron General Scientific Session Benign Tumors Fractionated Gamma Knife® Icon™ treatment for pituitary adenoma abutting the optic apparatus results in a significantly lower dose to organs at risk compared to Conformal Radiotherapy/VMAT
Michael McDermott Clinical Trials Updates GK General ROSE
James R. Connor Clinical Trials Updates GK General Aneurysms
Sandra Vermeulen Clinical Trials Updates GK General Essential Tremor
Jeroen Verheul Future Studies GK General Vestibular Schwannomas
Joanna Zakrzewska Future Studies GK General Trigeminal Neuralgia
Alessandra Gorgulho Future Studies GK General Pituitary Tumors
Guus, Patrick Beute, Hanssens Concluding Remarks Miscellaneous Key Meeting Takeaways