… lateral rigid motion was considered in this study to separate its effects from those of axial and
lateral strains on lateral displacement estimation… SD) of the estimated lateral displacements …

… BM-based spatial angular compounding (SAC) has been developed to obtain better
motion … optimization of lateral displacement estimation with spatial angular compounding,” …

… The angular steering step size was kept fixed at 1 in all the cases. Therefore, the numbers of
images used in compounding … of lateral displacement estimates and REs can be observed. …

… The estimation performance in the lateral … Spatial angular compounding (SAC) has been
demonstrated to improve the quality of lateral estimation by deriving the lateral displacements …

… on the angular displacement estimates at each pixel. (4) The compounded elastogram is …
Axial and lateral displacements generated, using FEA ofthe plane-strain elasticity problem …

… estimates. These gradients may be approximated by differences between local displacements
… an algorithm to estimate the slopes of multiple local displacement estimates in the spatial …

… are projected radially, followed by a least squares estimation … displacement values for each
155 × 135 μm 2 of tissue. The various methods for converting axial and lateral displacements …

… windows was used to generate displacement estimates. A five-point, … displacement estimates.
A three-point, least squares strain estimator 29 was used to generate local strain estimates…

… the displacement compounding, all the axial displacements … Finally, the compounded axial
and lateral displacements are … axial displacements along different steering angles using a …

… to obtain even better displacement estimates. The lateral displacements resulting from each
iteration … Displacement values in the axial direction were filtered with a median filter of 5 …