About Lars Leksell
Lars Leksell (24 November 1907 – 12 January 1986) was a Swedish physician and professor of Neurosurgery at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. He was the inventor of radiosurgery. == Life and career == Lars Leksell was born in Fässberg Parish, Sweden on 24 November 1907. He completed medical studies at the Karolinska Institute and began his neurosurgical training in 1935 under Herbert Olivecrona. Development of electronystagmography and his thesis on muscular control and gamma motor neurons were his early scientific achievements. In 1949, he developed his arc centered stereotactic frame based on a polar coordinate system. In 1951, using the Uppsala University cyclotron, Leksell and the physicist and radiobiologist Borje Larsson, developed the concept of radiosurgery. Leksell and Larsson first employed proton beams coming from several directions into a small area into the brain, in experiments in animals and in the first treatments of human patients. This achieved a new non-invasive method of destroying discrete regions within the brain while minimizing the effect on the surrounding tissues. He became a professor of surgery at University of Lund in 1958.
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