Misregistration between CT and PET in PET/CT is mainly caused by respiratory motion or irregular respiration during the CT scan in PET/CT. Other than repeat CT, repeat PET/CT, or data-driven gated (DDG) CT, there is no practical approach to mitigate the misregistration artifacts and subsequent CT attenuation correction (CTAC) of the PET data. DDG PET derives a respiratory motion model based on the multiple phases of PET images without hardware gating and it allows for a potential correction of the misregistration artifacts based on the respiratory motion model. The purpose of this commentary was to compare the recent two publications on matching the random phase of helical CT with one of the PET phases derived from the motion model of DDG PET and warping the misregistered helical CT for CTAC of and registration with PET or DDG PET. The two publications were similar in methodology. However, the data sets used for the comparison were different and could potentially impact their conclusions.

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