This work presents a new approach to lateral strain estimation in the field of tissue elasticity imaging with ultrasound. A particular beamforming is used to produce a point spread function (PSF) with lateral oscillations. Lateral RF signals can then be considered as the juxtaposition of RF samples coming from the same depth. This enables to estimate the lateral strain with a scaling factor estimator applied to the lateral signals. The approach is validated in simulation on a medium stretched only in the lateral direction. The estimation is unbiased for lateral strain values from 0.5 to 7 % with standard deviation less than 0.5 %.
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