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 …

Performance benchmarking of microbubble-localization algorithms for ultrasound localization microscopy

B Heiles, A Chavignon, V Hingot, P Lopez… - Nature Biomedical …, 2022 - nature.com
Ultrafast ultrasound localization microscopy can be used to detect the subwavelength
acoustic scattering of intravenously injected microbubbles to obtain haemodynamic maps of …

Medical image super-resolution reconstruction algorithms based on deep learning: A survey

D Qiu, Y Cheng, X Wang - Computer Methods and Programs in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background and objective With the high-resolution (HR) requirements of medical images in
clinical practice, super-resolution (SR) reconstruction algorithms based on low-resolution …

3D transcranial ultrasound localization microscopy in the rat brain with a multiplexed matrix probe

A Chavignon, B Heiles, V Hingot… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) provides images of the
microcirculation in-depth in living tissue. However, its implementation in two-dimension is …

[HTML][HTML] Dense-PSP-UNet: A neural network for fast inference liver ultrasound segmentation

MY Ansari, Y Yang, PK Meher, SP Dakua - Computers in Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Liver Ultrasound (US) or sonography is popularly used because of its real-time output, low-
cost, ease-of-use, portability, and non-invasive nature. Segmentation of real-time liver US is …

Ultrasound contrast imaging: Fundamentals and emerging technology

H Yusefi, B Helfield - Frontiers in Physics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The development of microbubble contrast agents has broadened the scope of medical
ultrasound imaging. Along with dedicated imaging techniques, these agents provide …

Short acquisition time super-resolution ultrasound microvessel imaging via microbubble separation

C Huang, MR Lowerison, JD Trzasko, A Manduca… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Super-resolution ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM), based on localization and
tracking of individual microbubbles (MBs), offers unprecedented microvascular imaging …

Aging-related cerebral microvascular changes visualized using ultrasound localization microscopy in the living mouse

MR Lowerison, NVC Sekaran, W Zhang, Z Dong… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Aging-related cognitive decline is an emerging health crisis; however, no established
unifying mechanism has been identified for the cognitive impairments seen in an aging …

In vivo whole brain microvascular imaging in mice using transcranial 3D ultrasound localization microscopy

O Demeulenaere, A Bertolo, S Pezet, N Ialy-Radio… - …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Non-invasive high-resolution imaging of the cerebral vascular anatomy and
function is key for the study of intracranial aneurysms, stenosis, arteriovenous …