oncology neuroscience radiation therapy electronic medical record founder lars leksell headquarters stockholm stockholm sweden number of locations stockholm crawley montr al qu bec atlanta georgia sunnyvale california key people richard hausmann ceo 1 products leksell gamma knife elekta neuromag oncology software mosaiq treatment planning software brachytherapy products and systems for radiation therapy and surgery number of employees 3300 website www.elekta.com elekta is a swedish company that provides radiation therapy radiosurgery related equipment and clinical management for the treatment of cancer and brain disorders . contents 1 history 2 acquisitions 3 footnotes 4 external links history edit elekta was founded in 1972 by the late lars leksell professor of neurosurgery at the karolinska institute in stockholm sweden . since 1994 the company has been listed on the nordic exchange under the ticker ektab . elekta was created to commercialize the development of the leksell stereotactic system and leksell gamma knife which the professor had been researching since the late 1940s . lars leksell s son laurent became chief executive officer of elekta until 2005 and under his leadership the company expanded into a public medical technology group with more than 3 400 employees worldwide . in 2005 tomas puusepp became president and ceo of the company . the company trades only in sweden but nearly half the sales of the company s equipment are in the united states . 1 the company saw net sales of 10 839 sek m 1.16 b as of january 2016 in the year 2014 15 2 gammaknife acquisitions edit philips medical systems the radiotherapy division ; 1997 neuromag a finnish magnetoencephalography manufacturer ; 2003 impac medical systems a cancer management software company ; 2005 cms a software provider for radiation treatment planning ; 2007 resonant medical a canadian developer of visualization products for radiation oncology ; 2010 3 nucletron brachytherapy worldwide leader 2011 footnotes edit quality assurance in stereotactic radiosurgery and fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy aapm medical physics a b marcial gg 2007 08 06 . why elekta may be a stockholm standout . businessweek . retrieved 2016 07 28 . elekta annual report 2014 15 pdf . elekta . retrieved 15 january 2016 . http www.resonantmedical.com en news events special downloads.php . accessed 2010 10 28 . archived by webcite at http www.webcitation.org 5tonfuxoo external links edit elekta official site elekta s blog versahd nucletron brachytherapy website esteya retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title elekta & oldid 742793575 categories technology companies of swedencompanies established in 1972swedish brands1972 establishments in swedencompanies based in stockholmcompanies listed on the stockholm stock exchange navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch fran aissvenska edit links this page was last modified on 5 october 2016 at 20 47 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view