How is CyberKnife System Different from Other Stereotactic Radiosurgery Systems?
The CyberKnife system uses the combination of a robotics and image guidance to deliver concentrated and accurate beams of radiation to intracranial and extracranial targets, many of which are inoperable. The robotic arm is highly flexible, allowing access to tumors in difficult-to-reach locations.

The CyberKnife, unlike other stereotactic radiosurgery systems, is able to position the patient without the use of an invasive stereotactic head frame. The CyberKnife system compensates for patient movement during treatment, constantly ensuring accurate targeting.

The Benefits of CyberKnife
Because the CyberKnife is non-invasive, it has significantly fewer complications than traditional open surgery and can often achieve comparable or better outcomes.

Other benefits to the patient may include:

• Radiation beams may be adjusted to avoid critical organs
• Dosage distributions adjusted to minimize radiation exposure to surrounding healthy tissue
• Treatment of lesions untreatable by open surgery or other radiosurgical systems
• Lesions that have previously undergone the maximum allowed dose of radiation can be treated
• Improved comfort due to the elimination of the invasive head-frame
• Painless
• No blood loss
• No scalpel
• No sedation during treatment
• No recovery time, always performed as an out-patient procedure
• Lower risk/fewer complications than traditional open surgery