Elekta announced today that it received FDA 510(k) clearance to expand indications for its Leksell Gamma Knife radiosurgery ...

The so-called gamma knife procedure is used to destroy small tumors in the brain while sparing as much healthy tissue as possible. Beams of low-intensity radiation are focused so that the beams ...

Treating brain cancer without surgery is a concept once thought impossible, but at the Huntsman Cancer Center in Murray it is not only possible but a reality. Gamma Knife Destroying Brain Tumors ...

“[The gamma knife] is radiation, but it treats a part of the brain that is real hard to get to,” Chin said on Friday. “It allows a doctor to treat [a patient] without making an incision in ...

Targeted radiation from the Elekta Gamma Knife Perfexion provides patients with non-invasive treatment and is “considered the gold standard” for treating brain tumors, according to Avera.

Lynda Phelps went in for brain surgery one recent ... had bloodless brain surgery with a gamma knife, a machine that focuses 201 sources of radiation at one spot in the brain.The gamma ...

The Gamma Knife’s ability to direct cobalt radiation to an area as small as a millimeter makes it well-suited for the precision required of brain radiosurgery, says Dr. Mitch Machtay, chairman ...

Gamma Knife, a type of radiation therapy where hundreds of precisely focused radiation beams are used to treat tumors and other abnormalities in the brain, is now available at Allegheny General ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Brain surgery for any reason can be a risky proposition, because it is hard not to damage normal brain tissue during an operation. But what if surgeons could destroy ...

Research Medical Center spent $3 million to upgrade to the Leksell Gamma Knife Icon, a radiation treatment for brain tumors. Other KC area centers use different devices.