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The Bayfront Gamma Knife Center at Bayfront Medical Center is the first Gamma Knife center on Florida's West Coast offering treatment with Leksell Gamma Knife® technology. The Gamma Knife is used to treat conditions in the brain without surgery. Gamma Knife treatment uses radiation in a very precise way that spares normal, healthy tissue while pinpointing targets with high doses of radiation. |
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Our mission is quality healthcare for all we service.
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The Gamma Knife is a highly sophisticated technology that relies on cobalt as its energy source. The gamma radiation that is emitted is shaped into 201 slim beams that are directed to a defined target. Because the dose along any single beam is so small, the tissue through which it passes is essentially unharmed. As a result, there is little or no radiation delivered to normal surrounding tissue. However, the precise point where the beams converge – for example, at the tumor site – receives a very high dose of radiation.
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Gamma Knife technology is the most accurate form of stereotactic radiation. It allows for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia, metastatic brain tumors, small arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), acoustic neuromas, meningiomas and other benign tumors.
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The clinical team at the Bayfront Gamma Knife Center consists of physicians, physicists and nurses. |
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The Bayfront Gamma Knife Center is in beautiful downtown St. Petersburg, Florida – conveniently located north of Sarasota and west of Tampa. |
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For more information, contact the Bayfront Gamma Knife Center at 727-893-6133, or visit our web site at www.bayfront.org |
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