Whole-Body Dose of Patients Treated With ZAP-X Intracranial Gyroscopic Stereotactic Radiosurgery
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: During the delivery of radiosurgery treatments, a small dose is given unintentionally to the areas of the patient’s body outside the primary treatment volume. It is a common practice for radiotherapy platform developers to minimize the dose outside the primary radiation field by providing X-ray target shielding in the beam-defining collimator head of such systems. The amount of such doses was measured for the ZAP-X® delivery platform by designing a phantom-based set-up mimicking the patient and measuring the dose with an ionization chamber and OSLDs. Furthermore, during several clinical ZAP-X radiosurgery treatment deliveries, the dose received by patients was measured with film-based dosimeters. The results were determined as absolute values and as a percentage of the primary dose.
Source: Cureus
DOI: 10.7759/cureus.c419
Author: Georg A Weidlich
Language: English
Subfield: Radiation
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7140836324
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