• Lateral Displacement Estimates (LDE) from ultrasound data has several benefits like obtaining accurate inverse solutions in elastography, improving shear strain elastogram quality, obtaining good quality poroelastograms, reliable rotation elastogram etc.
• Current methods are reliable only when the imaged medium is homogeneous, or if the displacement continuity is preserved at the boundaries in the case of non-homogeneous medium

This method is about estimating the Lateral (side-to-side) Motion of a Target in Ultrasound Imaging over a specific time interval “t.”

• Involves method that utilizes data from sub-pitch locations to improve the image quality parameters
• Lateral Motion Estimation  of a target  in ultrasound imaging sub-pitch precision is obtained at a distance half of the pitch (ie. λ/2) by translating the sub-aperture by activating odd number of consecutive elements and even number of consecutive elements sequentially.
• Two approaches have been used viz. Actuator Beam Translation (ABT) method (pre and post) and Electronic Beam Translation (EBT) method.