An Evaluation of the Benefits of Simultaneous Acquisition on PET/MR Coregistration in Head/Neck Imaging

<table class="table-group" id="tab2"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Score</td><td class="align_center">Meaning</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">0</td><td class="align_center">Case unusable</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">1</td><td class="align_center">Alignment of major anatomical structures is sufficient but localization of tumors is not perfectly corresponding</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">2</td><td class="align_center">Alignment of major anatomical structures is good and localization of tumors corresponds in PET and MRI</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Scoring system used to evaluate the registration quality of PET with MR images.

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Table 2: An Evaluation of the Benefits of Simultaneous Acquisition on PET/MR Coregistration in Head/Neck Imaging 