title: Invention of the N-localizer for stereotactic neurosurgery and its use in the Brown-Roberts-Wells stereotactic frame.
abstract: The N-localizer, which facilitates computed tomography-guided stereotactic surgery, was invented in the late 1970s by a medical student who built a prototype stereotactic frame to test the concept. Initial experiments using the prototype frame were soon followed by surgery in humans using the Brown-Roberts-Wells stereotactic frame.
authors.affiliation: Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA. russ.brown@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Russell A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: James A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Nelson
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000266:history* / Q000295:instrumentation; D009493:Neurosurgery / Q000266:history* / Q000295:instrumentation; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures / Q000266:history* / Q000295:instrumentation; D013238:Stereotaxic Techniques / Q000266:history* / Q000295:instrumentation; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000266:history* / Q000295:instrumentation