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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.

Brain -- Surgery. --- Operative ultrasonography. --- Radiosurgery. --- Ultrasonic encephalography. --- Diseases --- Radiotherapy --- Stereotaxic Techniques --- Neurosurgical Procedures --- Therapeutics --- Investigative Techniques --- Radiosurgery --- Neoplasms --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Surgical Procedures, Operative --- Surgery & Anesthesiology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Surgery - General and By Type --- Nervous system --- Surgery. --- Nerves --- Neurosurgery --- Gamma knife radiosurgery --- Surgery --- Medicine. --- Neurosurgery. --- Medicine & Public Health.

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This book is intended as a practical manual on the use of intraoperative ultrasound (IOUS) as a tool for imaging guidance during cranial and spinal neurosurgical procedures. Full account is taken of the emergence of novel clinical applications and recent technical advances, with extensive coverage of the impact of developments such as improved probe technology, fusion imaging and virtual navigation, 3D ultrasound imaging, contrast-enhanced ultrasound, and elastosonography. Basic principles of ultrasound are elucidated in order to assist in the optimal use of IOUS and clear guidance is provided on the interpretation of imaging findings in various pathologies. Informative comparisons are also made of the use of techniques such as fusion imaging and contrast-enhanced ultrasound in general radiology and neurosurgery. The aim of the authors is to enhance the general knowledge regarding intra-operative ultrasound brain imaging, standardizing its use and exploring new techniques, leading in some way toward compensating the lack of specific training in the application of ultrasound among the neurosurgical community. IOUS is a sensitive tool that can improve surgical precision and help to reduce morbidity.

Surgery - General and By Type --- Surgery & Anesthesiology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Brain --- Ultrasonic encephalography. --- Operative ultrasonography. --- Surgery. --- Tomography. --- Magnetic resonance imaging. --- Interventional sonography --- Interventional ultrasonography --- Interventional ultrasound --- Intraoperative ultrasonography --- Operative sonography --- Operative ultrasound --- Surgical ultrasonography --- Echo encephalography --- Echoencephalography --- Encephalography --- Topectomy --- Ultrasonic imaging --- Diagnostic ultrasonic imaging --- Ultrasonics in surgery --- Diseases --- Diagnosis --- Interventional radiology. --- Neurosurgery. --- Radiology, Medical. --- Neurology. --- Oncology  . --- Interventional Radiology. --- Imaging / Radiology. --- Oncology. --- Tumors --- Medicine --- Nervous system --- Neuropsychiatry --- Clinical radiology --- Radiology, Medical --- Radiology (Medicine) --- Medical physics --- Nerves --- Neurosurgery --- Radiology, Interventional --- Medical radiology --- Therapeutics --- Surgery --- Interventional radiology . --- Radiology. --- Neurology . --- Radiological physics --- Physics --- Radiation