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                                                              History Of Radiosurgery

Lars Leksell

Radiosurgery, Karolinska Institute

The performance of the first stereotactic radiosurgery procedure, before the invention of the Gamma Knife.  This was done by Dr. Lars Leksell, the neurosurgeon who invented the Gamma Knife.  The procedure was done at the University of Upsala, which had a strong physics department, which was necessary to support the cyclotron used in stereotactic radiosurgery. 

Lars Leksell: First Gamma Knife Surgery, 1968

Karolinska Institute 

Dr. Lars Leksell is seen with the first Gamma Knife patient, in 1968, at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.  Since Dr. Leksell didn't have the benefit of a cyclotron at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, he designed a device which became known as the Gamma Knife, and which held fixed sources of gamma rays (cobalt) around the patient's head.

Leksell Gamma Knife Surgery

Indications Of Gamma Knife Surgery

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