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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ultrasound Med Biol. 2017 Dec 1;44(2):321–331. doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2017.10.010

Table 1.

Representative surface wave speeds of a healthy subject and a patient at four locations of skin at 100 Hz, 150 Hz and 200 Hz.

Healthy [m/s] R4 R5 L4 L5
100 Hz 1.97 ± 0.31 1.7 ± 0.28 1.83 ± 0.04 1.79 ± 0.07
150 Hz 2.31 ± 0.08 2.5 ± 0.13 2.33 ± 0.25 2.52 ± 0.41
200 Hz 2.82 ± 0.19 2.99 ± 0.18 3.04 ± 0.37 3 ± 0.19

Patients R4 R5 L4 L5
100 Hz 3.42 ± 0.27 2.22 ± 0.25 2.82 ± 0.31 2.47 ± 0.22
150 Hz 4.52 ± 0.59 2.52 ± 0.35 3.6 ± 0.38 3.67 ± 0.25
200 Hz 5.17 ± 0.57 3.04 ± 0.23 5.36 ± 0.55 5.78 ± 0.64