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 …

Microvascular flow dictates the compromise between spatial resolution and acquisition time in ultrasound localization microscopy

V Hingot, C Errico, B Heiles, L Rahal, M Tanter… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Medical ultrasound is a widely used diagnostic imaging technique for tissues and blood
vessels. However, its spatial resolution is limited to a sub-millimeter scale. Ultrasound …

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 …

Improved ultrasound localization microscopy based on microbubble uncoupling via transmit excitation

J Kim, MR Lowerison, NVC Sekaran… - IEEE transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) demonstrates great potential for visualization of
tissue microvasculature at depth with high spatial resolution. The success of ULM heavily …

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 …

Curvelet transform-based sparsity promoting algorithm for fast ultrasound localization microscopy

Q You, JD Trzasko, MR Lowerison… - IEEE transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) based on microbubble (MB) localization was
recently introduced to overcome the resolution limit of conventional ultrasound. However …

Resolution limits of ultrafast ultrasound localization microscopy

Y Desailly, J Pierre, O Couture… - Physics in medicine & …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
As in other imaging methods based on waves, the resolution of ultrasound imaging is limited
by the wavelength. However, the diffraction-limit can be overcome by super-localizing single …

Subwavelength motion-correction for ultrafast ultrasound localization microscopy

V Hingot, C Errico, M Tanter, O Couture - Ultrasonics, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Ultrafast Ultrasound Localization Microscopy uses microbubbles that are
individually localized with a resolution below 10 μみゅーm. Positions of the microbubbles are …

Deep learning-based microbubble localization for ultrasound localization microscopy

X Chen, MR Lowerison, Z Dong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) is an emerging vascular imaging technique that
overcomes the resolution-penetration compromise of ultrasound imaging. Accurate and …

Deep learning for ultrasound localization microscopy

X Liu, T Zhou, M Lu, Y Yang, Q He… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
By localizing microbubbles (MBs) in the vasculature, ultrasound localization microscopy
(ULM) has recently been proposed, which greatly improves the spatial resolution of …