The Boston Gamma Knife Center at Tufts Medical Center is the first and only Gamma Knife center in Massachusetts 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.
Our goal is to adhere to the highest standards of patient care while providing patients with all the information, support and care they need.
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.
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.
The growing clinical team at the Boston Gamma Knife Center at Tufts-NEMC consists of four physicians, two physicists, a nurse and a radiation therapy technologist
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John Mignano, MD, PhD
Kevin Yao, MD
Julian Wu, MD, FACS
Adel Malek, MD, PhD
David Wazer, MD
Jody Morr, DO |
Mark Rivard, PhD, ABMP
Martin Fraser, MSc, ABR
Chris Melhus, PhD, MSc, ABR |
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Kerry Mahn, RN, BSN |
Stacey Francis, RTT |
The Boston Gamma Knife Center is located in the heart of Boston at Tufts Medical Center, the principal teaching hospital for Tufts University School of Medicine. In addition to the Gamma Knife, Tufts Medical Center offers both adults and children the most current treatments, including microsurgery, skull base surgery, complex spine surgery and intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT).
For more information, contact the Boston Gamma Knife Center at 617-636-GAMMA (4266), or visit our Tufts Medical Center's website for the Department of Radiation Oncology.