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Gamma Knife Neurosurgery

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Authors:
  1. Jeremy C. Ganz

    1. Bergen, Norway

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  • Current state of knowledge for various indications for which the Gamma Knife is used

  • Showing various steps in the assessment, acceptance and management of Gamma Knife patients

  • Frequently met problems and their solutions are described

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Background Principles and Technical Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction and the Nature of Radiosurgery

      • Jeremy C. Ganz
      Pages 3-8

    3. Principles of Stereotaxy

      • Jeremy C. Ganz
      Pages 9-16

    4. Ionising Radiation and Its Effects on Living Tissue

      • Jeremy C. Ganz
      Pages 17-31

    5. Biological Effects of Ionising Radiation

      • Jeremy C. Ganz
      Pages 33-46

    6. Ionising Radiation and Clinical Practice

      • Jeremy C. Ganz
      Pages 47-52

    7. Gamma Knife Development from 1967 to 2010

      • Jeremy C. Ganz
      Pages 53-66

    8. Radiophysics, Radiobiology and the Gamma Knife

      • Jeremy C. Ganz
      Pages 67-77

    9. Preparation for Treatment Planning

      • Jeremy C. Ganz
      Pages 79-98

    10. Dose Plan Indices

      • Jeremy C. Ganz
      Pages 99-102

  3. The Patient’s Experience

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
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    2. Gamma Knife Surgery and Computer Networks

      • Jeremy C. Ganz
      Pages 105-109

    3. Aims of Gamma Knife Surgery

      • Jeremy C. Ganz
      Pages 111-113

    4. Principles of Information and Follow Up

      • Jeremy C. Ganz
      Pages 115-120

  4. The Gamma Knife and Specific Diseases: Tumours

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. Vestibular Schwannomas

      • Jeremy C. Ganz
      Pages 123-143

    3. Meningiomas

      • Jeremy C. Ganz
      Pages 145-168

    4. Gamma Knife for Cerebral Metastases

      • Jeremy C. Ganz
      Pages 169-196

    5. Intraparenchymal Intrinsic Brain Tumours

      • Jeremy C. Ganz
      Pages 197-217
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About this book

Today, over 500,000 patients have been treated world wide in 250 Gamma Knife Centres in 37 countries each one treating between 150 and 700 patients a year. The current book serves as a textbook, training manual and reference book for those involved in Gamma Knife practice covering the theoretical background, the practical aspects of treatment, the social side of the method and necessary information not only for users but for those who refer to the Gamma Knife. It also covers some aspects of the hospital and social administration required for optimal use of the technology, also looking at the effect of the internet on specialist medical practice. It also presents the completely new Gamma Knife (Perfexion), a new technology which extends the range of the Gamma Knife and will be the treatment standard for the future.

Reviews

From the reviews:

“This is a didactically well-written book on stereotactic radiosurgery of the brain. … The book’s structure is logical and easy to follow. … The book is of great interest to neurosurgeons whether beginners or advanced in the field of radiosurgery. … The book should be part of the library in any radiosurgery center that treats lesions of the CNS and in any department of neurosurgery … . It should be mandatory reading for young neurosurgeons irrespective of the subspecialty they might choose.” (Thomas Mindermann, Acta Neurochirurgica, Vol. 154, 2012)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Bergen, Norway

    Jeremy C. Ganz

About the author

Jeremy C. Ganz, born in 1943 in the UK, he is a Cambridge University graduate. He moved to Norway in 1976 and became a staff neurosurgeon in Bergen from 1979. He became director of the world’s 5th Gamma Knife in 1988. From 1993 he taught Gamma Knife radiosurgery to new users in over 75 centres round the world. He built up a Gamma Knife Centre in Cairo between 2001 and 2007 then returning to the Bergen Gamma Knife team.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Gamma Knife Neurosurgery

  • Authors: Jeremy C. Ganz

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0343-2

  • Publisher: Springer Vienna

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag/Wien 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-7091-0342-5Published: 11 October 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7091-1729-3Published: 11 October 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-7091-0343-2Published: 08 September 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 376

  • Topics: Neurosurgery

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