Before Treatment

The patients is normally admitted the day before the treatment. After you check into the hospital, our specialist nurse will take care of you and give you a full run down of the entire procedure and what to except. We believe that psychological preparation is important, and may question you have regarding Gamma Knife Treatment will be addressed.

8:00  a.m Attaching the head frame

  Our neurosurgeon, assisted by our nurse, will attach the lighweight stereotastic head frame by four shallw screws under local anaesthesia. The stereotastic head frame is a key component in Gamma Knife surgery. It prevents you from moving during imaging and treatment procedures and allows the doctors to pinpoint the lesion in your brain with extreme accuracy. You might experience som pain durng the local anaesthetic injection and screw application, but that is fact the only pain that might occur durng the whole treatment.


8:30 a.m. Diagnostic imaging

 After the head frame is in place it is time for imaging, which is done by MRI (magnetic resonance imaging). Three-demonsional imaging is required to determine the exact size, shape and position of the lesion in the brain. During this process, a coordinate box is temporarily placed on the head frame to provide prcise coordinate points of the  will be treating. After imaging, the box will be removed.





9:30 aq.m. Customized treatment planning

once the diagnostic images have been taken, you will return tou your room and served a light meal and you can also restend time with your family if they are present. In the meantime, all you MRI images w transported to the Gamma Knife planning system and the Gamma Knife team will design a specific treatment plant for you. Every patients plan is different and individually designed to address each patient's specific situation. The process usually takes about an hour.

10:30 a.m. The Treatment

Once your treatment  plan is finished, the actual treatmen can begin. You will l;ay down on the treatmen couch and the head frame will be attached to a fixation device at the head of the couch. Once the room is vacated, the dood of the machine will open and t move your head into the collimator system and start the treatment. The couch will continufrom time to time during the entire treatment. You are awake during the whole treatment and will be able to communicate with the team through audio and vidio, as our team monitor the procedure at all times. The procedure is completely painless and silent, and lasts anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour, depending on the size of the tumor. If you wish, you can listen tou your music of choice.