Offering excellent education, evaluation and treatment to clinicians and patients with nervous system disorders. The Gamma Knife is actually not a knife. It represents an unique tool that treats non-invasively certain neurological disorders. The Gamma Knife uses a single dose of high energy radiation directed through 201 separate ports. It focuses the radiation to the lesion using sophisticated 3-dimensional computer targeting software.
Numerous studies reveal the Gamma Knife to be highly effective.
However, the efficacy is dependent on several different factors. To date, based on a 1996 Leksell Gamma Knife Society survey over 49,000 patients have received Gamma Knife treatment. Through the use of sophisticated 3-dimensional targeting software highly accurate and precision target irradiation is possible. Reports have revealed that the Gamma Knife can be used as an alternative to conventional neurosurgical operations or as an complemetal therapy along with standard neurosurgical treatment in a variety of brain disorders. To learn more about this exciting technology in Syracuse visit us at the Central New York Gamma Knife Center online.