Gamma Knife

Gamma Knife surgery makes it possible to treat formerly untreatable lesions, making one-day brain surgery an amazing reality. The opening of the Mercy NeuroScience Institute Gamma Knife Center is part of Mercy’s continuing commitment to providing the highest quality healthcare for patients.

Gamma Knife allows neurosurgeons to use beams of gamma radiation to destroy brain tumors and functional brain disorders without incisions or bleeding. There are almost 200 Gamma Knife systems in operation worldwide, and now the unit at Mercy is one of those selected few. Gamma Knife technology is dedicated solely to brain tumors and has given patients an important alternative to the limits of conventional surgery. Physicians who are members of the Gamma Knife team include:

• Joseph A. Andrezik, MD, Ph.D.

• Charles F. Engles, MD

• Paul Francel, MD, PhD

• Thomas Griggs, MD

• Eric Friedman, MD

• Michael R. Hahn, MD

• Gary L. Larson, MD

• Clinton A. Medbery, MD

• Astrid Morrison, MD

• Kiran Prabhu, MD

• W. Emery Reynolds, MD

• Timothy Tytle, MD

• Richard Vertrees Smith, MD

• Benjamin White, MD

• Marianne Young, MD

• Gamma Knife Coordinator - 405-752-3771

• Physicians

• How does it work?

• History of the Leksell Gamma Knife®

• Press release

• Step 1 Attaching the frame

• Step 2 CT, MRI or Angiography

• Step 3 Treatment planning

• Step 4 Treatment

• After the treatment

• Follow-up