• Neurosurgery · Jun 2012

    Historical Article

    Invention of the N-localizer for stereotactic neurosurgery and its use in the Brown-Roberts-Wells stereotactic frame.

    • Russell A Brown and James A Nelson.
    • Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA. russ.brown@yahoo.com
    • Neurosurgery. 2012 Jun 1;70(2 Suppl Operative):173-6.

    AbstractThe 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.

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