Russell A. Brown

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.

Brown also made contributions to the k-d tree and to the generalized Born model of implicit solvation.