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 …

[HTML][HTML] Super-resolution ultrasound microvascular imaging: Is it ready for clinical use?

P Song, JM Rubin, MR Lowerison - Zeitschrift für Medizinische Physik, 2023 - Elsevier
The field of super-resolution ultrasound microvascular imaging has been rapidly growing
over the past decade. By leveraging contrast microbubbles as point targets for localization …

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 …

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 …

A deep learning framework for spatiotemporal ultrasound localization microscopy

L Milecki, J Porée, H Belgharbi… - … on Medical Imaging, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) can resolve the microvascular bed down to a few
micrometers. To achieve such performance, microbubble contrast agents must perfuse the …

Measuring image resolution in ultrasound localization microscopy

V Hingot, A Chavignon, B Heiles… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The resolution of an imaging system is usually determined by the width of its point spread
function and is measured using the Rayleigh criterion. For most system, it is in the order of …

Localization free super-resolution microbubble velocimetry using a long short-term memory neural network

X Chen, MR Lowerison, Z Dong… - IEEE transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound localization microscopy is a super-resolution imaging technique that exploits the
unique characteristics of contrast microbubbles to side-step the fundamental trade-off …

Super-resolution ultrasound reveals cerebrovascular impairment in a mouse model of Alzheimer's Disease

MR Lowerison, NVC Sekaran, Z Dong… - Journal of …, 2024 - Soc Neuroscience
Increasing evidence has suggested a link between cerebrovascular disease and the
cognitive impairment associated with Alzheimer's disease. However, detailed descriptions of …

Evaluation of 2D super-resolution ultrasound imaging of the rat renal vasculature using ex vivo micro-computed tomography

SB Andersen, I Taghavi, HM Kjer, SB Søgaard… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Super-resolution ultrasound imaging (SRUS) enables in vivo microvascular imaging of
deeper-lying tissues and organs, such as the kidneys or liver. The technique allows new …

A review of clinical applications for super-resolution ultrasound localization microscopy

H Yi, MR Lowerison, P Song, W Zhang - Current Medical Science, 2022 - Springer
Microvascular structure and hemodynamics are important indicators for the diagnosis and
assessment of many diseases and pathologies. The structural and functional imaging of …