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About CyberKnife®
CyberKnife is the first and only radiosurgery system to use intelligent robotics to continuously track, detect and correct for tumor and patient movement throughout the treatment. Technically, CyberKnife isn’t a knife at all. It is a radiosurgical device that emits beams of painless radiation intended to destroy abnormal tissue inside the body. Since each beam is relatively weak on its own, the normal tissue through which it passes to get to its target is left largely unaffected. However, when the beams converge, their combined power is great enough to destroy malignant tumors and benign lesions.
The CyberKnife system consists of three main components:
1. An advanced linear accelerator that produces a high-energy beam of radiation
2. A robotic arm that aims the linear accelerator from a wide variety of angles
3. Imaging devices that are combined with powerful software to track patient position
The treatment software enables CyberKnife to locate the tumor’s position and guide the robotic arm to deliver the highly focused beams of radiation to it. The robotic arm's range of motion permits radiation to be delivered to tumor sites and benign lesions that are unreachable for most other stereotactic treatment procedures.
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