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| The Baptist Regional Gamma Knife Center at Baptist Hospital of East Tennessee is the first and only Gamma Knife center in East Tennessee 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 goal is to adhere to the highest standards of patient care while providing patients with all the information, support and care they need.
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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 growing clinical team at the Baptist Regional Gamma Knife Center consists of nine physicians, a physicist, two nurse and a Gamma Knife Coordinator.
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David Hauge, M.D., F.A.C.S., Medical
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Richard P. Boyer, M.D.
Michael D. Fromke, M.D.
N. Garrett Powell, M.D.
Joel B. Ragland, M.D.
Steven A. Sanders, M.D., F.A.C.S. |
Joseph Bowling, M.Sc. |
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John M. Anderson, M.D., Ph.D.
Joseph T. Meyer, M.D.
Nilesh Patel, M.D. |
Trish Craft, R.N.
Tiffiny White, R.N.
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| Rita Latour |
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The Baptist Regional Gamma Knife Center is located on the banks of the Tennessee River in Knoxville at Baptist Hospital of East Tennessee, the flagship hospital of the Baptist Health System. In addition to the Gamma Knife, Baptist offers the most current treatments, including microsurgery, skull base surgery, complex spine surgery, intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), and 4D CT Gating. |
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For more information contact the Baptist Regional Gamma Knife Center at (865) 549-4000. |
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