Russell A. Brown
Russell A. Brown, an American physician and computer scientist, is the inventor of the N-localizer technology that enables guidance of stereotactic surgery or radiosurgery using medical images that are obtained via computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, or positron emission tomography.
Brown invented the N-localizer in 1978 when he was a medical student investigating image-guided surgery in the laboratory of his mentor, James A. Nelson, at the University of Utah. A few months later, Brown designed and built the first CT-compatible stereotactic frame in order to test the concept of the N-localizer.
