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| The IU School of Medicine treated the first patient in Indiana with a new, non-invasive surgical procedure to eliminate epileptic seizures. The school is one of six institutions in the nation participating in the National Institutes of Health clinical trial for intractable epilepsy.
The protocol is called radiosurgery and uses the Gamma Knife to focus 201 beams of gamma radiation on the precise location of the brain responsible for the seizures. When the beams converge, the targeted area of the brain receives a full-treatment dose of radiation. Gamma Knife radiosurgery spares healthy areas of the brain from high-dose exposure to gamma radiation.
http://medicine.indiana.edu/news_releases/archive_02/Epilepsy02.html | |
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Publication date: June 21, 2002
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