Gamma Knife without Angiogram, MRI only

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The angiogram was done way before

This is useful because this is what I wondered may be typical. So effectively they didn’t use the angiogram on the day: just one or more of the other imaging techniques.

I went and read the following post today as I remember pinning it as a good description of what gamma knife is all about.

Gamma Knife Surgery Sheffield

The wait has been excruciating and filled with anxiety as most people on this forum who have been through it can testify too. It is not just the waiting though there is the thought that the journey you are about to embark on might not give you the desired outcome. To each of us that have these little aliens in our heads and elsewhere this is an entirely personal decision balanced by the information given to us by our Doctors and Consultants whom we must trust. I’m sure most of us have come awa…

In it @micko described having both angiogram and MRI but I tend to feel that the angiogram is used to see the AVM as a whole and the MRI may be used for the measurements, in which case, @Summer010824’s experience of not having any angiogram planned as part of the gamma knife visit kinda fits the same way as for your son.

I’m sure it is only a matter of querying why this is the case. I’m thinking the MRI is a perfect method for pinpointing the places to zap and no need to expose to more radiation than necessary.