Publications by authors named "Daniel Agaoglu"
Objective: To evaluate our initial experience with Novalis (BrainLAB, Heimstetten, Germany) frameless image-guided noninvasive radiosurgery.
Methods: The system combines the dedicated Novalis linear accelerator with ExacTrac X-Ray 6D, an infrared camera and a kilovolt stereoscopic x-ray imaging system, a noninvasive mask system, and ExacTrac robotics for patient positioning in six degrees of freedom. Reference cranial skeletal structures are radiographically imaged and automatically fused to digital reconstructed radiographs calculated from the treatment planning computed tomographic scan to find the target position and accomplish automatic real-time tracking before and during radiosurgery.