Russell A. Brown

Russell A. Brown is an American physician and computer scientist. He is the inventor of a method for directing stereotactic surgery using computed tomography.^[1]

Russell A. Brown earned MD and PhD degrees, and completed a pathology residency at the University of Utah. While a medical student on rotation in the research laboratory of his mentor, James A. Nelson, professor of radiology, he invented an ingenious method for directing stereotactic surgery using computed tomography. Together with Theodore S. Roberts, professor of neurosurgery, and Trent H. Wells, Jr., an engineer, he developed the Brown-Roberts-Wells (BRW) stereotactic instrument that embodies his invention and is used throughout the world. His invention stimulated intense interest in stereotaxy and radiosurgery. It is used in a number of stereotactic and radiosurgical instruments today.

Selected publications

• Brown RA (June 1979). "A computerized tomography-computer graphics approach to stereotaxic localization". Journal of Neurosurgery 50 (6): 715–20. doi:10.3171/jns.1979.50.6.0715. PMID 374688. 
• Brown RA (1979). "A stereotactic head frame for use with CT body scanners". Investigative Radiology 14 (4): 300–4. doi:10.1097/00004424-197907000-00006. PMID 385549. 
• Brown RA, Roberts TS, Osborn AG (1980). "Stereotaxic frame and computer software for CT-directed neurosurgical localization". Investigative Radiology 15 (4): 308–12. doi:10.1097/00004424-198007000-00006. PMID 7009485. 
• Brown RA, Roberts T, Osborn AG (1981). "Simplified CT-guided stereotaxic biopsy". American Journal of Neuroradiology 2 (2): 181–4. PMID 6784559. 
• US patent 4608977, Brown, Russell A., "System using computed tomography as for selective body treatment", issued 1986-09-02 

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