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However, typical B-mode ultrasound images have limited contrast and tissue differentiation capability for several clinical applications.\n<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Methods.<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Recent introduction of imaging speed-of-sound (SoS) in soft tissues using conventional ultrasound systems and transducers has great potential in clinical translation providing additional imaging contrast, e.g., in intervention planning, navigation, and guidance applications. However, current pulse-echo SoS imaging methods relying on plane wave (PW) sequences are highly prone to aberration effects, therefore suboptimal in image quality. In this paper we propose using diverging waves (DW) for SoS imaging and study this comparatively to PW.\n<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results.<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>We demonstrate wavefront aberration and its effects on the key step of displacement tracking in the SoS reconstruction pipeline, comparatively between PW and DW on a synthetic example. We then present the parameterization sensitivity of both approaches on a set of simulated phantoms. Analyzing SoS imaging performance comparatively indicates that using DW instead of PW, the reconstruction accuracy improves by over 20% in root-mean-square-error (RMSE) and by 42% in contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR). We then demonstrate SoS reconstructions with actual US acquisitions of a breast phantom. 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