C.J. Hourdakis
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C.J. Hourdakis is a leading authority in medical physics, with a primary focus on the precision and safety of stereotactic radiosurgery systems. Their research centers on total system error analysis, particularly for robotic radiosurgery platforms used in treating spinal and cranial lesions. Hourdakis's most cited work, a 2018 study with 24 citations, provides a landmark long-term evaluation of system accuracy. By analyzing over 200 end-to-end (E2E) phantom measurements collected from 2006 to 2017, they systematically assessed the impact of tracking methods (including XST spine tracking), hardware and software upgrades, and secondary collimation on overall performance. This comprehensive investigation, which also utilized independent polymer gel dosimetry, established critical benchmarks for clinical quality assurance. Hourdakis’s contributions have directly informed best practices for maintaining sub-millimeter accuracy in robotic radiosurgery, enhancing patient safety over extended periods of clinical use. Their work remains essential reading for medical physicists and engineers developing and validating next-generation image-guided radiation therapy systems.
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