Abstract
The main signal-processing techniques used in elastography compute strains as the displacement derivative. They perform well for very low deformations, but suffer rapidly from decorrelation noise. Aiming to increase the range of accurate strain measurements, we developed an adaptive method based on the estimation of strains as local scaling factors. Its adaptability makes this method appropriate for computing scaling factors resulting from larger strains or a wide spread of strain variations. First, segments corresponding to the same part of tissue are adaptively selected in the rest and stressed state echo signals. Then, local scaling factors are estimated by iteratively varying their values until reaching the zero of the phase of the complex cross-correlation function. Results from simulation and from experimental data are presented. They show how this adaptive method can track various local deformations and its accuracy for strain up to 7%.
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