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Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control. 2016 Oct 28;64(2):320–334. doi: 10.1109/TUFFC.2016.2622818

TABLE II.

Overview of the performed simulations and the associated settings

Experiment	Figure	Displacement		Beamforming	SNR [dB]	TO params [deg]
Experiment	Figure	Type	Magnitude	Beamforming	SNR [dB]	λ_θ	σ_θ
V-A. Sample CRLB curves	3	Lateral [μm]	0–1000 [100]	FOC, PWTO, PWTO*	20	5.75	10.5
V-B. Optimizing TO params	4–5	Lateral [μm]	200	FOC, PWTO, PWTO*	20	3–12 [0.25]	0.5–20 [0.5]
Optimum classical TO	6	Lateral [μm]	0–1000 [100]	FOC, PWTO90, PWTO90*	20	5.25	12
Optimum windowed TO	6	Lateral [μm]	0–1000 [100]	FOC, PWTO50, PWTO50*	20	3	3
V-C. Influence SNR	7	Lateral [μm]	0–1000 [100]	FOC, PWTO90, PWTO50	10–30 [5]	5.25⁽⁹⁰⁾\|3⁽⁵⁰⁾	12⁽⁹⁰⁾\|3⁽⁵⁰⁾
V-D. Influence displ. type	8	Axial [μm]	0–1000 [100]	FOC, PWTO90, PWTO50	10–30 [5]	5.25⁽⁹⁰⁾\|3⁽⁵⁰⁾	12⁽⁹⁰⁾\|3⁽⁵⁰⁾
	9	Rotation [deg]	0–6 [0.5]	FOC, PWTO90, PWTO50	10–30 [5]	5.25⁽⁹⁰⁾\|3⁽⁵⁰⁾	12⁽⁹⁰⁾\|3⁽⁵⁰⁾
V-E. Clinical implications	10	Lateral	See ref. [41]	FOC, PWTO50*	10–30	3	3

For those parameter settings that were varied over a certain range, a step size is given between squared brackets. Superscripts ⁽⁹⁰⁾ and ⁽⁵⁰⁾ refer to the PWTO90 and PWTO50 beamforming sequences respectively.