. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 23.

Published in final edited form as: Ultrason Imaging. 2012 Jul;34(3):159–180. doi: 10.1177/0161734612455576

Table 2.

Experimental Results (Nylon Fiber)

Medium	Literature-Predicted C_water, m/s	Literature-Predicted C_oil, m/s	Local Estimate between Targets, m/s	Error Relative to C_water, m/s (%)	Standard Deviation of Local Error, m/s (%)
Water only	1474.1	NA	1475.0	0.05 (0.0032)	1.04 (0.071)
Castor oil (5 mm) on water	1472.1	1515.5	1482.2	−10.16 (−0.69)	0.41 (0.028)
Castor oil (7 mm) on water	1472.2	1515.4	1485.2	−13.38 (−0.91)	1.90 (0.129)
Castor oil (10 mm) on water	1472.7	1514.9	1489.4	−16.70 (−1.12)	1.69 (0.12)
Castor oil (12 mm) on water	1474.1	1513.6	1489.8	−15.77 (−1.07)	7.17 (0.49)

NA = Not applicable