Spatial‐angular compounding is a new technique that enables the reduction of noise
artifacts in ultrasound elastography. Under this method, compounded elastograms are
obtained from a spatially weighted average of local strain estimated from radio frequency (rf)
echo signals acquired at different insonification angles. In previous work, the acquisition of
the rf signals was performed through the lateral translation of a phased‐array transducer.
Clinical applications of angular compounding would, however, require the utilization of …

Spatial-angular compounding is a new technique that enables the reduction of noise
artifacts in ultrasound elastography. Previous results using spatial angular compounding,
however, were based on the use of the tissue incompressibility assumption. Compounded
elastograms were obtained from a spatially-weighted average of local strain estimated from
radiofrequency echo signals acquired at different insonification angles. In this paper, we
present a new method for reducing the noise artifacts in the axial strain elastogram utilizing …