PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Rani Noble
TI  - Brain Imaging Techniques: Improving the Quality
AID  - 10.2967/jnmt.120.257592
DP  - 2021 Jul 01
TA  - Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
PG  - jnmt.120.257592
4099  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/early/2021/07/09/jnmt.120.257592.short
4100  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/early/2021/07/09/jnmt.120.257592.full
AB  - Image quality is one of the utmost important factors in nuclear medicine. Regardless of what type of scan is being done, technologists should be diligent in how images are being acquired. In respect to brain imaging, there can be challenges that the technologist will need to understand how to navigate through and overcome. Throughout this continuing education article, different image quality complications will be mentioned and how it affects image outcome. The purpose of this article is to help technologists gain a better understanding of how artifacts can occur and how imaging techniques can affect image quality. This document will mainly focus on SPECT brain imaging, DaTscans and, (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET/CT brain imaging.