Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is celebrating a significant milestone in care as its National Centre for Stereotactic Radiosurgery marks 40 years of delivering Gamma Knife radiation treatments. Based at Royal Hallamshire Hospital, the centre made medical history in 1985 when it became the first centre in the UK, and the third in the […]
Read MoreProvider of stereotactic radiosurgery Amethyst Radiotherapy has upgraded its gamma knife machine at its Queen Square Radiosurgery Centre, London. Specialised cranage equipment was used, lifting more than 15 tonnes of equipment between the two high-rise buildings located in central London. The source loader weighed approximately nine tonnes, with the radiation vault weighing around five tonnes, […]
Read MorePatients at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have become the first in the world to receive treatment on the latest version of the Gamma Knife, used for treating intracranial pathologies, including brain tumours. The Royal Hallamshire Hospital has installed the Elekta Esprit and the first patients were treated on February 7. The hospital is […]
Read MoreNational Centre for Stereotactic Radiosurgery clinical scientist Kate Hunt. Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one the centres that will deliver specialist stereotactic radiosurgery and stereotactic radiotherapy (SRS/SRT) to treat patients with brain tumours, epilepsy and pain disorders. Access to specialist Gamma Knife treatments for patients in South Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire will […]
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