Russell A. Brown

Russell A. Brown is an American physician and computer scientist. He is the inventor of the N-localizer^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]} technology that enables guidance of stereotactic surgery or radiosurgery using medical images that are obtained via computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET).^{[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]}

Brown earned MD and PhD degrees at the University of Utah. While a medical student and in the research laboratory of his mentor, James A. Nelson, he invented a device that guides stereotactic surgery or radiosurgery using computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or positron emission tomography (PET).^{[16][17][18][19][20][21]} This device has become known as the N-localizer.^[22][23] It stimulated renewed interest in, and further development of, stereotactic surgery and radiosurgery and has achieved widespread clinical use in the Brown-Roberts-Wells (BRW),^[24] Leksell,^[25] Kelly-Goerss^[26] and Cosman-Roberts-Wells (CRW)^[27] stereotactic instruments and in the Gamma Knife^[28] stereotactic radiosurgery system.

In addition to his work with stereotactic surgery and the N-localizer, Brown has contributed to medical imaging,^[29] nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy,^{[30][31][32][33]} computational chemistry,^[34] structural biology^[35] and computer science.^[36][37][38]

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