  Temperature, density and abundance profiles of the hot intracluster medium
(ICM) are important diagnostics of the complex interactions of gravitational
and feedback processes in the cores of galaxy clusters. Deprojection of X-ray
data by methods such as projct, which are model dependent, can produce large
and unphysical oscillating temperature profiles. Here we validate a
deprojection routine, Direct Spectral Deprojection (DSDeproj; Sanders & Fabian
2007), showing that it solves some of the issues inherent to model-dependent
deprojection routines. DSDeproj is a model-independent approach, assuming only
spherical symmetry, which subtracts projected spectra from each successive
annulus to produce a set of deprojected spectra.
