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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 21.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Med Biol. 2011 Oct 28;56(22):7223–7246. doi: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/22/014

Table 2.

The normalized RMS errors of modulus elastograms reconstructed using three methods: no prior, soft prior, and hard prior.

Method 7.0 dB 10 dB 15 dB
NP 26.2 % 24.2 % 22.6%
SP2 11.9 % 9.6 % 9.4 %
SP5 12.2% 9.4 % 9.1 %
HP2 9.8 % 7.7 % 7.5 %
HP5 10.0% 7.4 % 7.2 %

The symbols SP2, SP5, HP2, and HP5 represent the cases when SP and HP reconstructions were performed with spatial priors consisting of two and five regions. The normalized RMS values were computed using equation 13.