| CC | Cross Correlation |
| CCGIP | Normalized Correlation Coefficient summed with the Gradient Internal Products |
| CR | Correlation Index |
| dB | Decibels |
| DC | Coefficient of Dice |
| EMAF | Enhanced Multiple Acquisition Frames |
| EMT | Extrinsic Motion Tracking systems |
| FWHM | Full Width Half Maximum |
| GRAD | Sum of degraded internal products |
| HD | Hellinger distance |
| IMP | Precision Coincidence of Intensities |
| JE | Joint Entropy |
| JHCT | Jensen–Havrda–Charvat–Tsallis divergence |
| JRD | Jensen–Renyi divergence |
| LOR | Line of Response |
| MAF | Multiple Acquisition Frames |
| MFDT | Minimal Frame Duration Threshold |
| MI | Mutual Information |
| MLEM-OS | Maximum Likelihood Expectation Maximisation with Ordered Subsets |
| MSD | Mean Square Difference |
| NCC | Normalized Correlation |
| NMI | Standardized Mutual Information |
| PET | Positron Emission Tomography |
| PSE | Point Set Expectation |
| PSNR | Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio |
| PVE | Partial Volume Effect |
| RIU | Image Uniformity Ratio |
| RMSE | Root Mean Square Error |
| SAD | Sum of Absolute Differences |
| SADG | Sum of Absolute Differences plus sum of the Gradient internal products |
| SLS | Scaled Least Squares difference image |
| SNR | Signal-to-Noise Ratio |
| SSD | Sum of Squared Differences |
| VAMPIRE | Variational Algorithm for Mass-Preserving Image REgistration |