OPERATIVE TECHNIQUE

Invention of the N-Localizer for Stereotactic Neurosurgery and Its Use in the Brown-Roberts-Wells Stereotactic Frame

Brown, Russell A. MD, PhD*; Nelson, James A. MD‡

Author Information

*Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, California

‡University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Correspondence: Russell A. Brown, MD, PhD, Hewlett-Packard Company 3000 Hanover Street Palo Alto, CA 94304. E-mail: [email protected]

Received August 11, 2011

Accepted November 11, 2011

Operative Neurosurgery 70():p ons173-ons176, June 2012. | DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e318246a4f7

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.

ABBREVIATION: 

BRW, Brown-Roberts-Wells

© 2012 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.

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