Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
Gamma Knife radiosurgery is a technique that precisely focuses and delivers a high dose of radiation to a target in the brain. As a non-surgical procedure, it does not involve an actual knife, but is called “radiosurgery” because of its precision
With the Gamma Knife tool, a finely oriented, high radiation dose is transmitted from up to 192 individual radiation beams which are placed precisely to converge on the tumor region. Because lower doses of radiation from multiple sources converge at a single location, a minimum dose is given to normal tissue in the path of radiation. That reduces the risk of damage to healthy tissue from radiation.
