Let ℳ be a von Neumann factor of type II1 with a normalized trace τ. In 1983 L. G. Brown showed that to every operator T∈ℳ one can in a natural way associate a spectral distribution measure μ T (now called the Brown measure of T), which is a probability measure in ℂ with support in the spectrum σ(T) of T. In this paper it is shown that for every T∈ℳ and every Borel set B in ℂ, there is a unique closed T-invariant subspace $𝒦={𝒦}_{\mathrm{T}}\left(B\right)$ affiliated with ℳ, such that the Brown measure of ${\mathrm{T}|}_{𝒦}$ is concentrated on B...