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This may impair the diagnostic capability of the STE in the case of e.g. local changes of the cardiac contractility. This work attempts to evaluate, how far one can reduce the averaging area, without sacrificing the estimation accuracy that could be important from the clinical point of view.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Synthetic radio frequency (RF) data of a spheroidal left ventricular (LV) model were generated using FIELD II package and meshes obtained from finite element method (FEM) simulation. The apical two chamber (A2C) view and the mid parasternal short axis view (pSAXM) were simulated. The sector encompassed the entire cross-section (full view) of the LV model or its part (partial view). The wall segments obtained according to the American Heart Association (AHA17) were divided into subsegments of area decreasing down to 3 mm<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>. Longitudinal, circumferential and radial strain estimates, obtained using a hierarchical block-matching method, were averaged over these subsegments. Estimation accuracy was assessed using several error measures, making most use of the prediction of the maximal relative error of the strain estimate obtained using the FEM derived reference. Three limits of this predicted maximal error were studied, namely 16.7%, 33% and 66%. The smallest averaging area resulting in the strain estimation error below one of these limits was considered the smallest allowable averaging area (SAAA) of the strain estimation.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>In all AHA17 segments, using the A2C projection, the SAAA ensuring maximal longitudinal strain estimates error below 33% was below 3 mm<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>, except for the segment no 17 where it was above 278\u00a0mm<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>. The SAAA ensuring maximal circumferential strain estimates error below 33% depended on the AHA17 segment position within the imaging sector and view type and ranged from below 3\u2013287\u00a0mm<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>. The SAAA ensuring maximal radial strain estimates error below 33% obtained in the pSAXM projection was not less than 287\u00a0mm<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>. The SAAA values obtained using other maximal error limits differ from SAAA values observed for the 33% error limit only in limited number of cases. SAAA decreased when using maximal error limit equal to 66% in these cases. The use of the partial view (narrow sector) resulted in a decrease of the SAAA.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>The SAAA varies strongly between strain components. In a vast part of the LV model wall in the A2C view the longitudinal strain could be estimated using SAAA below 3\u00a0mm<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>, which is smaller than the averaging area currently used in clinic, thus with a higher resolution. The SAAA of the circumferential strain estimation strongly depends on the position of the region of interest and the parameters of the acquisition. The SAAA of the radial strain estimation takes the highest values. 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