Zuyao Y. Shan1, Sara J. Mateja2, Wilburn E. Reddick3, John O. Glass3, Barry L. Shulkin4
1Division of Translational Imaging Research, Department of Radiological Sciences , St. Jude Children's Research Hospital , Memphis, TN, USA; 2Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, USA; 3Division of Translational Imaging Research, Department of Radiological Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA; 4Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiological Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
We retrospectively evaluated the accuracy of PET-MR atlas fusion of 5 well-accepted registration methods, using data acquired for purposes of clinic care. Both visual inspection and quantitative analysis showed that the affine registration based on ratio image uniformity is the most accurate for PET-MR atlas registration.