The Origins and Development of Radiosurgery and the Leksell Gamma Knife
In the 1930’s a young Lars Leksell joined Herbert Olivecrona in his operating room in Stockholm. The experience, with all its “blood, sweat and tears” and with up to 60 percent surgical mortality, prompted a lifelong quest for ways to minimize neurosurgical trauma. In the late 1940’s he developed his own stereotactic instrument, the basic […]