. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 1.

Published in final edited form as: Ultrason Imaging. 2014 Aug 12;37(2):101–116. doi: 10.1177/0161734614547281

Table 1.

Percentage improvements in the mean for speckle SNR, contrast and CNR between fundamental B-mode vs. SLSC and harmonic B-mode vs. HSCI across all three image quality groups.

		Good Quality (n=28)	Medium Quality (n=34)	Poor Quality (n=29)	Overall (n=91)
Speckle SNR	Fundamental B-mode vs. SLSC	62%^*	46%^*	41%^*	50%^*
Speckle SNR	Harmonic B-mode vs. HSCI	109%^*	73%^*	48%^*	72%^*
Contrast	Fundamental B-mode vs. SLSC	10%	28%^*	67%^*	29%^*
Contrast	Harmonic B-mode vs. HSCI	4.3%	20%^*	79%^*	17%^*
CNR	Fundamental B-mode vs. SLSC	71%^*	60%^*	56%^*	64%^*
CNR	Harmonic B-mode vs. HSCI	117%^*	80%^*	69%^*	85%^*

The signifies a statistically significant improvement with a p<0.01.