Stereotactic Radiosurgery

by Eben Alexander

A snapshot of the current knowledge of techniques, results, and complications relating to doing brain surgery with radiation rather than with knives, first developed in the 1950s and under constant revision. Practitioners and researchers from around the world provide information on technical considerations, radiation physics, radiobiology, radiosurgical systems, clinical results, and future directions. Includes 11 color plates, and is otherwise highly illustrated in black and white. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

254 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Eben Alexander III (born December 11, 1953) is an American neurosurgeon and the author of the book Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife, in which he describes his 2008 near-death experience and asserts that science can and will determine that the brain does not create consciousness and that consciousness survives bodily death.