A medical accelerator system consisting of coplanar and non-coplanar
beams, on line magnetic resonance anatomic and functional imaging and
cone beam computed tomographic imaging for single session image guided
all field simultaneous radiation therapy and radiosurgery is provided.
This system enables single session simulation, field-shaping block
making, treatment planning, dose calculations and treatment of tumors.
The radiation exposure time to the tumor and the normal tissue is reduced
to a few seconds to less than a minute. In filed intensity modulated
radiation is rendered by combined divergent and pencil beam, multiple
smaller fields within a larger field, selectively varying beam's energy,
dose rate and beam weight. Since all the treatment fields are treated
simultaneously the dose rate at the tumor site is the sum of each of the
converging beam's dose rate at depth. This super-high biological dose
rate impairs the lethal and sublethal damage repair.