Russell A. Brown

Who is Russell A. Brown?

Russell A. Brown is an American physician and computer scientist. He is the inventor of the N-localizer technology that guides stereotactic surgery or radiosurgery using medical images that are obtained via computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and other tomographic imaging modalities.

Dr. Brown earned MD and PhD degrees at the University of Utah. While a medical student on rotation in the research laboratory of his mentor, James A. Nelson, he invented an ingenious device that guides stereotactic surgery or radiosurgery using computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging. This technology has become known as the N-localizer. This invention stimulated intense interest in, and further development of, stereotactic surgery and radiosurgery. It achieved widespread clinical use in the Brown-Roberts-Wells, Cosman-Roberts-Wells and Leksell stereotactic systems and other stereotactic and radiosurgical instruments.