gamma knife

noun

1. an machine that uses radiation with extreme accuracy to destroy abnormal tissue, esp in the brain

Example Sentences

For example, just recently, the researchers of KTU Institute of Mechatronics have created the frame for immobilising the Gamma Knife radiosurgery patients at the Clinics of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences.

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She has undergone emergency surgery to remove four, but is having treatment called gamma knife radio surgery - in which targeted beams of radiation are focussed on tumours - to remove the remaining seven.

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Gamma Knife radiosurgery does not actually require a surgical incision.

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“Previously, with Gamma Knife treatment, we couldn’t test the patient’s response before we made a lesion,” Gerard says.

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As with Gamma Knife radiosurgery, when the beams pass through, there is no effect until they converge on a single point and then the energy results in a biological effect or change.

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