ATLANTA, June 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Elekta’s Leksell Gamma
Knife® Perfexion™ earned the number one ranking in the
KLAS research firm’s recently released 2011 Top 20 Best in KLAS
Awards: Medical Equipment & Infrastructure* report.
Perfexion received Best in KLAS in the radiation therapy
category.
In the report, Perfexion scored 92.9 out of 100 and 95 percent
of customers indicated they would buy again. On a 1 to 9 scale,
Perfexion received an 8.6 from respondents for satisfaction with
product uptime, the highest score among all vendors rated in the
market segment.
“Leksell Gamma Knife has
been the gold standard for radiosurgery for many years,” says Jay
Hoey, Executive Vice President, Elekta North America. “Our latest
generation solution, Perfexion, was designed and developed based on
the insight of expert Leksell Gamma Knife users. The Best in KLAS
designation recognizes not only the sophistication of this
radiosurgery platform, but also the contributions of our clinical
partners in making it a reality.”
Elekta posted record-breaking sales of Leksell Gamma Knife
systems in 2010, confirming the growing demand for the system as a
safe, effective modality to treat brain metastases and other
cranial disorders.
Gamma Knife® surgery is a gentler alternative to traditional
brain surgery for illnesses such as metastatic disease –
cancer that has traveled to the brain from elsewhere in the body.
The system precisely delivers up to thousands of low-intensity
radiation beams to one or more targets in a single session. Leksell Gamma Knife
Perfexion provides even greater speed and ease of use than
previous versions, especially for treating multiple metastases.
Supported by three decades of clinical practice in both
neurosurgery and radiation oncology departments, more than 50,000
patients each year are treated w
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