“Waiting to be wheeled down for open brain surgery is absolutely terrifying,” she says. “All you think is: ‘I am going to die, I am going to die’." Seven months later Ellen had gamma knife surgery, a ...

Doctors now have the technology to reach into patients' brains, heads and necks with even more precise doses of radiation -- not scalpels -- to treat tumors and lesions. It took an 80-foot crane to ...

THOMASVILLE — With the ability to deliver a non-invasive but highly accurate therapeutic dose of radiation to the brain with Gamma Knife, Archbold Memorial Hospital has transformed treatment for ...

It took just 57 minutes for Riverside’s radiosurgery team to treat two widely separated lesions in the brain of Thomas S. Jones last Tuesday. The Williamsburg resident returned home the same afternoon ...

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Gamma Knife is widely used for a variety of intracranial pathologies from benign and malignant tumours to vascular malformations. With any high-dose radiotherapy, it is necessary to utilize an ...

Surgeons have used gamma knife technology for years during delicate brain surgeries. It's not a knife at all, but instead a focused beam of radiation that carries less risk of damaging nearby tissue.

The maker of a life-saving radiation therapy device has patched a software bug that could cause the system's emergency stop button to fail to stop, following an incident at a Cleveland hospital in ...

The most advanced noninvasive, radiosurgery tool for treating a variety of brain disorders--including tumors--is now being used by specialists at UCSF Medical Center. The new machine expands UCSF’s ...