PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Gina N. Morano AU - John P. Seibyl TI - Technical Overview of Brain SPECT Imaging: Improving Acquisition and Processing of Data DP - 2003 Dec 01 TA - Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology PG - 191--195 VI - 31 IP - 4 4099 - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/31/4/191.short 4100 - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/31/4/191.full SO - J. Nucl. Med. Technol.2003 Dec 01; 31 AB - The purpose of this article is to give a basic understanding of imaging setup, postprocessing procedures, and anatomy for brain SPECT. After reading the article, the nuclear medicine professional should be able to describe the normal anatomy of the brain; the localization of radiopharmaceutical complexes within the brain; good techniques for image acquisition; and the concepts of filtered backprojection, smoothing filters, and attenuation correction in reconstruction.