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The facility is based in the Balestier Road-based ParkwayHealth Day Surgery & Medical Centre. [3] An independent medical centre, any member of the public, local or foreigner, is entitled to make use of it. [5] The centre promotes itself as "Asia's leading gamma knife centre" and "the only gamma knife facility in Singapore". [3]
One of the first neurosurgeons to embrace Gamma Knife surgery, he helped to promote its widespread use. [citation needed] He was elected to the Society of Neurological Surgeons in 2001, and is an active member as of 2008. [4] In 2017 he opened a clinic in Chicago focussing on chronic pain. [5]
Feigl began his medical education in the USA. After studying in Dallas, Houston and Graz and several years of brain tumor research at the Neuroscience Institute at Baylor College of Medicine in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, the largest medical center in the world, he was working on his thesis on radiosurgery in the treatment of pituitary tumors using the gamma-knife method.
The Gamma Knife relied on a stereotactic frame screwed into the patient's skull as an external surrogate to triangulate the location of the subject's tumor; Adler instead wanted to rely on recent medical imaging advancements and internal anatomical structures to guide the beam. Dr. Adler also sought to eliminate the costs to secure and ...
He is the first neurosurgeon in the world to perform image-guided surgery for aneurysms. [24] He is the first neurosurgeon in South Asia to perform gamma knife radiosurgery. [1] He is the first neurosurgeon in India to perform EC-IC bypass for Moyamoya disease. [25] [26] He is the first neurosurgeon in India to perform endoscopic spinal surgery ...
Leksell proceeded to develop a practical, compact, precise and simple tool which could be handled by the surgeon himself. In 1968 this resulted in the Gamma Knife, which was installed at the Karolinska Institute and consisted of several cobalt-60 radioactive sources placed in a kind of helmet with central channels for irradiation with gamma ...
Following in the footsteps of Dr. Peter Jannetta, the "father of microvascular decompression," and Dr. Dade Lunsford, who introduced Gamma-knife radiosurgery to the University of Pittsburgh, Levy pursued minimally invasive endovascular neurosurgery by spending 2 years of his residency in Buffalo, as a fellow under Dr. L. Nelson Hopkins, the ...
Gamma Knife® [3] Shaped Beam Surgery™ [4] Minimally invasive neurosurgery utilizing a robotically controlled microscope [5] NeuRx DPS™, an FDA-approved device that helps individuals with certain types of spinal cord injuries breathe on their own again [6]