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A Head-Holding Device for Improved Brain Scintigraphy

U.S. Public Health Service and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio

Correspondence: For reprints contact: Raymond Berke, Nuclear Medicine Laboratory, Cincinnati General Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229.

ABSTRACT

Adequate head fixation during scintigraphy of the brain has been resolved with a commercially available, relatively inexpensive head holder, easily modified for use with commercially available gamma cameras.

Involuntary head movements in all but the most uncooperative patient have essentially been eliminated. The device assures that the head be maintained in the midline of the crystal and a few simple measurements assure that the head be held in a true lateral, anterior, or posterior position.

Since this head-holding device has been in use, our laboratory has produced noticeably improved brain scintigrams with less motion artifact and more reproducible and true projections.