Ultrasonic agar phantom experiment for comparison of the measurement accuracy of tissue elasticity obtained by displacement vector measurement using lateral modulation with multidimensional autocorrelation and Doppler methods and corresponding one-dimensional methods

Abstract

Comparison of the measurement accuracy of elasticity was performed through agar phantom experiments, ie, two-dimensional (2D) strain tensor components and 2D shear modulus reconstruction obtained by previously developed multidimensional displacement vector measure- ment methods on the basis of autocorrelation and Doppler methods (2D AM and 2D DM) and the corresponding 1D methods. The multidimensional methods yield more accurate and stable results than the corresponding 1D methods. As is shown, however, such 1D methods can also be used when the echo signal-to-noise ratio is high, eg, obtainable by previously developed lateral modulation with parabolic apodizations.