Notice of Removal: A novel tracking strategy for single tracking location shear wave elasticity imaging

Abstract

Single tracking location shear wave elasticity imaging (STL-SWEI) follows shear waves either at a fixed point in space or at equidistant points from push beam pairs. The former method uses directional filtering to reduce reflection artifacts, the latter approach provides more accurate shear wave speed (SWS) estimates. To exploit the advantages of both tracking strategies, we propose to use compounded plane wave (CPW) imaging to perform STL-SWEI. This will reduce both reflection artifacts and the variance incurred when estimating SWS in suboptimal imaging conditions.