Tradeoffs between the axial resolution and the signal-to-noise ratio in elastography

S. Srinivasan; R. Righetti; J. Ophir

Tradeoffs between the axial resolution and the signal-to-noise ratio in elastography

S. Srinivasan, R. Righetti, J. Ophir

Houston Methodist

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Abstract

Conventional strain estimation techniques in ultrasound-elastography utilize cross-correlation of the pre- and post-compression signals. The quality of the resulting strain estimates is typically quantified through several factors such as the elastographic SNR (SNR_e), the contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR_e), and the spatial resolution. These quality factors depend on the mechanical, acoustic, and signal processing parameters. We find a trade-off between the achievable SNR_e (and CNR_e) and the axial resolution. We also find that the trade-off occurs only with respect to the signal processing parameters, while for the physical parameters (the mechanical and the acoustic parameters) such a tradeoff does not exist. Simulations and experiments were used to corroborate this hypothesis.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	963-964
Number of pages	2
Journal	Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings
Volume	2
State	Published - 2002
Event	Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology 24th Annual Conference and the 2002 Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES / EMBS) - Houston, TX, United States Duration: Oct 23 2002 → Oct 26 2002

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Signal Processing
Biomedical Engineering
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Health Informatics

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Tradeoffs between the axial resolution and the signal-to-noise ratio in elastography

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