The treatment of intracranial lesions with stereotactic radiosurgery.

Stereotactic radiosurgery is a new method of delivering a high dose of megavoltage, ionizing radiation therapy to a localized area in the brain in a single session. A substantial variety of intracranial lesions can be treated with the use of a stereotactic head frame and set up of tertiary collimators on an existing linear accelerator. This state-of-the-art technique has been used since June 1992 at the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia University in Morgantown. Radiosurgery treatment has been well tolerated by all 24 patients treated thus far.