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| | Strain rate imaging |
 | | From the formula, it is evident that positive strain is lengthening or stretching, in accordance with the everyday usage of the term, negative strain is shortening or compression, in relation to the original length. |
 | | As all strain components are interrelated, one component may be representative of all of the regional function (7), but the 3-dimensional nature of the strain tensor is important to understand the specific problems of insonation angle in strain rate imaging compared to velocity imaging. |
 | | As strain rate is equal to velocity gradient, in fact deformation can be described as motion gradient, strain rate being the velocity gradient (spatial derivative of of velocity), and strain the displacement gradient (spatial derivative of displacement) c fr. |
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