History of the Gamma Knife

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Background knowledge in the early days2. Some physics from 550 BC to AD 19483. Medical physics - particle accelerators - the beginning4. From particle accelerator to radiosurgery5. Stereotactic and radiosurgery concepts in sweden6. Stereotactic and radiosurgery research in sweden7. The journey from proton to gamma knife8. The earliest gamma unit patients9. Stockholm radiosurgery developing 1968-198210. From stockholm to pittsburgh11. Changing times and early debates12. The development of dose planning13. Changing the gamma knife14. Conclusion and possible future trends

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Jeremy Ganz was trained in neurosurgery at Queen Square London, Frenchay Hospital Bristol and Manchester Royal Infirmary. He emigrated to Norway in 1976 and was appointed staff surgeon in Bergen in 1979. In 1989 he was appointed chief of the Gamma Knife Center in Bergen, the fifth such center in the world. Since then he has travelled the world teaching Gamma Knife practice finishing in Cairo where he helped establish a Gamma Knife Center, where he worked for six years.
Since retirement he has published three books on Gamma Knife neurosurgery and one on epidural bleeding. Subsequently he has been interested in neurosurgical history, in particular the history of cranial surgery from Hippocrates to the present with two books and several papers on these topics.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jeremy Ganz, Jeremy C Ganz, Jeremy C. Ganz, Jeremy C. Ganz
• Verlag: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.11.2014
• EAN: 9780444635204
• ISBN: 978-0-444-63520-4
• Seiten: 152
• Serien: Progress in Brain Research; Progress in Brain Research
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Nichtklinische Fächer; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Einzelne Wirtschaftszweige, Branchen; MEDICAL / Neurology, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Radiosurgery; Gamma Knife; Medical History; Neurosurgical