P. Pantelakos
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Patrick Pantelakos is a leading expert in medical physics and robotic radiosurgery, with a primary focus on the precision and long-term reliability of CyberKnife systems. His most cited work, "On the total system error of a robotic radiosurgery system" (2018, 24 citations), provides a landmark analysis of end-to-end (E2E) accuracy using radiochromic film and polymer gel phantoms. Spanning over 200 measurements from 2006 to 2017, this study systematically evaluates how tracking methods (notably spine XST), hardware and software versions, secondary collimation, and system age affect total system error. Pantelakos’s contributions are critical for clinical quality assurance, offering the first comprehensive, multi-year assessment of a robotic radiosurgery platform’s performance drift and stability. His work has become a reference for physicists and clinicians seeking to validate treatment accuracy over a machine’s lifetime. By combining phantom measurements with long-term clinical evaluation, Pantelakos has helped establish benchmarks for safe and effective stereotactic radiosurgery, directly impacting patient safety and treatment planning protocols.
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