The CyberKnife® Robotic Radiosurgery System is the world's first and only radiosurgery system designed to treat tumors anywhere in the body with sub-millimeter accuracy. Using image guidance technology and computer controlled robotics, the CyberKnife System is designed to continuously track, detect and correct for tumor and patient movement throughout the treatment. Because of its extreme precision, the CyberKnife System does not require invasive head or body frames to stabilize patient movement, vastly increasing the system's flexibility.

Unlike traditional radiosurgery systems that can only treat tumors in the head and neck, the CyberKnife System can treat both intracranial and extracranial tumors. In fact, extracranial treatments currently represent more than 50 percent of CyberKnife System procedures in the United States, including those of the spine, lung, prostate, liver and pancreas. The CyberKnife System provides an additional option to many patients diagnosed with previously inoperable or surgically complex tumors.

Advantages of the CyberKnife system include:

• Treats tumors anywhere in the body

• Continuously tracks, detects and corrects for tumor and patient movement throughout the treatment

• Delivers treatments with sub-millimeter accuracy, minimizing damage to surrounding healthy tissue

• Utilizes the skeletal structure of the body as a reference, eliminating the need for bone fiducials or invasive frames typically used with traditional radiosurgery systems

• An option for inoperable or surgically complex tumors

• Successfully treats patients in single or multiple fractions

• Provides unsurpassed linac maneuverability and complete access and coverage for any tumor volume

• Boasts a patient-centric design providing a relaxed treatment experience

• Enables superior flexibility in treatment planning:

  • forward or inverse treatment planning

  • isocentric or non-isocentric treatment plans

  • simultaneous treatment of multiple tumors

• Allows for the flexible scheduling of treatments

• Attracts a new patient population to a physician's practice

• Complements existing radiation therapy, IMRT or IGRT programs