The earliest gamma unit patients.
The inventors were very excited and drove the first patient from Stockholm over 100 km for the first treatment. The treatment was a technical success. The new machine was transported to Sophiahemmet (a private Stockholm hospital) and installed. A further eight patients were treated and assessed. At the start, there was no computerized treatment planning program, but this was soon developed and named KULA after the Swedish word for a sphere, since the actual treatment unit was spherical. The term Gamma Knife was first used later by the Pittsburgh group.
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Studsvik; first gamma unit patient; loading gamma unit; technical terms