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Gamma Knife

A trademark for a radiologic nonsurgical device used in stereotactic radiosurgery.

Gamma knife

A surgical tool that focuses beams of radiation at the head, which converge in the brain to form a lesion.

Mentioned in: Brain Tumor, Psychosurgery

gamma knife,

an apparatus for precisely aimed intersecting beams of gamma rays that delivers radiation therapies as treatment for intracranial lesions, either tumors or vascular anomalies. It is used in stereotactic radiosurgery.

gamma knife

Radiation oncology An RT device that provides 201 stereotactically focused beams of γ radiation from 60Co that destroys intracranial targets; the GK and linear accelerators can be adapted to irradiate localized regions of the brain Indications AV malformations, meningiomas, acoustic neuromas, pituitary adenomas, craniopharyngiomas, 1º and 2º tumors

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