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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ultrasound Med Biol. 2015 Feb 17;41(4):1043–1057. doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2014.11.006

Table 1.

Phantom Elasticity Calibration

Gnom (kPa) SWSqEI (m/s) GqEI (kPa)
Background 2.7 1.51 ± 0.03 2.30 ± 0.09
Type I 0.7 0.74 ± 0.03 0.55 ± 0.05
Type II 5.3 1.88 ± 0.04 3.55 ± 0.16
Type III 8.0 2.43 ± 0.02 5.89 ± 0.12
Type IV 10.7 2.54 ± 0.02 6.48 ± 0.08
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Values are reported as mean ± one standard deviation over six measurements. SWSqEI is reported by the software, and GqEI is calculated as SWSqEI2 from equation 1, assuming ρ = 1 g/cm3.