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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control. 2012 Sep;59(9):2066–2076. doi: 10.1109/TUFFC.2012.2428

TABLE II.

Statistics of the ESD results produced with each estimator for experimental phantom 1.

Without outlier removal
Estimator 5 MHz 7.5 MHz 10 MHz 13 MHz

1 96.4 ± 2.8 μm 86.8 ± 1.4 μm 61.9 ± 0.8 μm 42.5 ± 0.9 μm
2 93.2 ± 4.5 μm 88.6 ± 2.2 μm 93.3 ± 1.8 μm 52.4 ± 21.4 μm
3 88.5 ± 8.5 μm 92.0 ± 3.6 μm 92.3 ± 1.7 μm 70.1 ± 41.1 μm

With outlier removal (results from full dataset in parenthesis)

1 95.4 ± 1.6 μm (96.5 μm) 86.3 ± 0.7 μm (86.5 μm) 62.0 ± 0.5 μm (62.0 μm) 42.3 ± 0.6 μm (42.5 μm)
2 93.7 ± 3.1 μm (93.5 μm) 88.5 ± 1.1 μm (88.5 μm) 94.0 ± 0.9 μm (93.0 μm) 39.2 ± 1.8 μm (39.5 μm)
3 91.1 ± 6.1 μm (90.0 μm) 91.2 ± 2.1 μm (91.5 μm) 93.0 ± 1.0 μm (92.0 μm) 82.2 ± 2.7 μm (85.5 μm)