Gamma knife neurosurgery
Today, over 500,000 patients have been treated world wide in 250 Gamma Knife Centres in 37 countries each one treating between 150 and 700 patients a year. The current book serves as a textbook, training manual and reference book for those involved in Gamma Knife practice covering the theoretical ba...
| Main Author: | Ganz, Jeremy C., 1943- |
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| Other Authors: | SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Wien ; New York :
Springer,
©2011.
Wien ; New York : [2011] |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xxii, 376 pages) : illustrations. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction and the nature of radiosurgery
- Principles of stereotaxy
- Ionizing radiation and its effects on living tissue
- Biological effects of ionizing radiation
- Ionizing radiation and clinical practice
- Gamma knife development from 1967 to 2010
- Radiophysics, radiobiology and the gamma knife
- Preparation for treatment planning
- Dose plan indices
- Gamma knife surgery and computer networks
- Aims of gamma knife surgery
- Principles of information and follow up
- Vestibular schwannomas
- Meningiomas
- Gamma knife for cerebral metastases
- Intraparenchymal intrinsic brain tumors
- Tumors of the pituitary region
- Less common skull base tumors
- Gamma knife for cerebral vascular anomalies
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- Diverse functional indications
- Rare tumors and other lesions
- Orbital indications
- Conclusion and possible future trends.