Gamma Knife Treatment

What is a Gamma Knife Icon?

Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is non-surgical radiation therapy for treating the functional abnormalities and relatively small brain tumors. It can produce accurately-targeted radiation through fewer high-dose sessions compared to traditional therapy, and this basically helps preserve healthy tissue. The Gamma Knife which is one of the basic kinds of equipment of SRS treatment uses 192 or 201 beams of highly focused gamma rays all pointing at the target region. The Gamma Knife is very effective for treating small to medium size lesions within the skull.

Gamma Knife radiosurgery, as a kind of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), is a cut-free and effective procedure that aims to treat benign and malignant brain tumors. While the Gamma Knife radiation treatment is applied in high precision to the target tissue within or around the brain, any effect on surrounding healthy tissue is minimized at the same time. The term "knife" in its name may be led to misunderstanding; however, there is no knife or cutting implementation is actually involved at any stage of this treatment.

CyberKnife radiosurgery (CKRS) is a painless and cut-free treatment that precisely delivers radiation to cancerous and non-cancerous tumors anywhere in the body including the brain, kidneys, neck, and head. CyberKnife is the most suitable treatment for recurrent tumors after prior radiotherapy treatments. Other than brain lesions, small tumors in the lungs, liver, and spine can also be effectively treated using CyberKnife.

CyberKnife radiosurgery (CKRS) is a painless, non-invasive treatment that delivers high doses of radiation with sub-millimeter precision to cancerous and non-cancerous tumors anywhere in the body including the prostate, spine, brain, lung, neck, and head. Some of the most common conditions treated by CyberKnife are brain tumors, neurofibromatosis, pancreatic cancer, lymphoma, spinal cord tumors, nasopharynx cancer, lung cancer.

What is Gamma Knife Radiosurgery?

Gamma knife radiosurgery is a precise, noninvasive and effective radiation therapy procedure which has been proven highly effective in the treatment of certain malignant and benign brain tumors, arteriovenous malformations and trigeminal neuralgia. In addition to these conditions, Gamma Knife treatments for Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, and intractable pain are also promising according to research results.