Super-resolution ultrasound imaging

K Christensen-Jeffries, O Couture, PA Dayton… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2020 - Elsevier
The majority of exchanges of oxygen and nutrients are performed around vessels smaller
than 100 μm, allowing cells to thrive everywhere in the body. Pathologies such as cancer …

Ultrasound localization microscopy and super-resolution: A state of the art

O Couture, V Hingot, B Heiles… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Because it drives the compromise between resolution and penetration, the diffraction limit
has long represented an unreachable summit to conquer in ultrasound imaging. Within a …

Acoustic super-resolution with ultrasound and microbubbles

OM Viessmann, RJ Eckersley… - Physics in Medicine …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Ultrasound (US) is a widely used clinical imaging modality that offers penetration depths in
tissue of> 10 cm. However, the spatial resolution in US imaging is fundamentally limited by …

In vivo acoustic super-resolution and super-resolved velocity mapping using microbubbles

K Christensen-Jeffries, RJ Browning… - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The structure of microvasculature cannot be resolved using standard clinical ultrasound
(US) imaging frequencies due to the fundamental diffraction limit of US waves. In this work …

3-D In Vitro Acoustic Super-Resolution and Super-Resolved Velocity Mapping Using Microbubbles

K Christensen-Jeffries, J Brown… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Standard clinical ultrasound (US) imaging frequencies are unable to resolve microvascular
structures due to the fundamental diffraction limit of US waves. Recent demonstrations of 2 …

Super-resolution ultrasound localization microscopy based on a high frame-rate clinical ultrasound scanner: an in-human feasibility study

C Huang, W Zhang, P Gong, UW Lok… - Physics in Medicine …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Non-invasive detection of microvascular alterations in deep tissues in vivo provides critical
information for clinical diagnosis and evaluation of a broad-spectrum of pathologies …

Current development and applications of super-resolution ultrasound imaging

Q Chen, H Song, J Yu, K Kim - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Abnormal changes of the microvasculature are reported to be key evidence of the
development of several critical diseases, including cancer, progressive kidney disease, and …

Fast vascular ultrasound imaging with enhanced spatial resolution and background rejection

A Bar-Zion, C Tremblay-Darveau… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound super-localization microscopy techniques presented in the last few years enable
non-invasive imaging of vascular structures at the capillary level by tracking the flow of …

A super‐resolution ultrasound method for brain vascular mapping

MA OˈReilly, K Hynynen - Medical physics, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: High‐resolution vascular imaging has not been achieved in the brain due to
limitations of current clinical imaging modalities. The authors present a method for …

Microbubble axial localization errors in ultrasound super-resolution imaging

K Christensen-Jeffries, S Harput… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Acoustic super-resolution imaging has allowed the visualization of microvascular structure
and flow beyond the diffraction limit using standard clinical ultrasound systems through the …