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Recently, super-resolution ultrasound imaging with ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) has received much attention. However, ULM relies on low concentrations of microbubbles in the blood vessels, ultimately resulting in long…

Ultrasound Localization Microscopy can resolve the microvascular bed down to a few micrometers. To achieve such performance microbubble contrast agents must perfuse the entire microvascular network. Microbubbles are then located…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Léo Milecki , Jonathan Porée , Hatim Belgharbi , Chloé Bourquin , Rafat Damseh , Patrick Delafontaine-Martel , Frédéric Lesage , Maxime Gasse , Jean Provost

Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) is a non-invasive technique that allows for the imaging of micro-vessels in vivo, at depth and with a resolution on the order of ten microns. ULM is based on the sub-resolution localization of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Brice Rauby , Paul Xing , Jonathan Porée , Maxime Gasse , Jean Provost

Resolving arterial flows is essential for understanding cardiovascular pathologies, improving diagnosis, and monitoring patient condition. Ultrasound contrast imaging uses microbubbles to enhance the scattering of the blood pool, allowing…

Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) enables imaging of vascular structures in the micrometer range by accumulating contrast agent particle locations over time. Precise and efficient target localization accuracy remains an active…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-08 Christopher Hahne , Georges Chabouh , Olivier Couture , Raphael Sznitman

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. Recently, the emergence of super-resolution ultrasound…

Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) offers a cost-effective modality for microvascular imaging by using intravascular contrast agents (microbubbles). However, ULM has a fundamental trade-off between acquisition time and spatial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Ufuk Soylu , Yoram Bresler

Ultrasound localization microscopy offers new radiation-free diagnostic tools for vascular imaging deep within the tissue. Sequential localization of echoes returned from inert microbubbles with low-concentration within the bloodstream…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 Oren Solomon , Ruud J. G. van Sloun , Hessel Wijkstra , Massimo Mischi , Yonina C. Eldar

Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) has recently enabled the mapping of the cerebral vasculature in vivo with a resolution ten times smaller than the wavelength used, down to ten microns. However, with frame rates up to 20.000 frames…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-10-23 Erwan Hardy , Jonathan Poree , Hatim Belgharbi , Chloe Bourquin , Frederic Lesage , Jean Provost

The purpose of this study is to enable in-vivo three-dimensional (3-D) ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) of posterior ocular microvasculature using a 256-channel system and a 1024-element matrix array, and to overcome limitations of…

In Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM), achieving high-resolution images relies on the precise localization of contrast agent particles across a series of beamformed frames. However, our study uncovers an enormous potential: The…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Christopher Hahne , Georges Chabouh , Arthur Chavignon , Olivier Couture , Raphael Sznitman

Ultrafast ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM), which has shown promising results in microvascular imaging, overcomes the typical trade-off between resolution and penetration depth. Combining ultrasound contrast agents and high frame…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 A. N. Madhavanunni , Niya Mariam Benoy , Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker , Himanshu Shekhar

Transcranial ultrasound imaging is usually limited by skull-induced attenuation and high-order aberrations. By using contrast agents such as microbubbles in combination with ultrafast imaging, not only can the signal-to-noise ratio be…

Super-Resolution Ultrasound (SRUS) imaging through localising and tracking microbubbles, also known as Ultrasound Localisation Microscopy (ULM), has demonstrated significant potential for reconstructing microvasculature and flows with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Jipeng Yan , Qingyuan Tan , Shusei Kawara , Jingwen Zhu , Bingxue Wang , Matthieu Toulemonde , Honghai Liu , Ying Tan , Meng-Xing Tang

Ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) refers to a promising medical imaging modality that systematically leverages the advantages of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) to surpass the diffraction barrier and delineate the microvascular…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-22 Md Ashikuzzaman , Brandon Helfield , Hassan Rivaz

Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) can map microvessels at a resolution of a few micrometers (\mu m). Transcranial ULM remains challenging in presence of aberrations caused by the skull, which lead to localization errors. Herein, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-20 Paul Xing , Jonathan Porée , Brice Rauby , Antoine Malescot , Éric Martineau , Vincent Perrot , Ravi L. Rungta , Jean Provost

Contrast-Enhanced Ultra-Sound (CEUS) has become a viable method for non-invasive, dynamic visualization in medical diagnostics, yet Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) has enabled a revolutionary breakthrough by offering ten times…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Christopher Hahne , Raphael Sznitman

Super-resolution ultrasound (SR-US) is a powerful imaging technique for capturing microvasculature and blood flow at high spatial resolution. However, accurate microbubble (MB) localization remains a key challenge, as errors in localization…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Sepideh K. Gharamaleki , Brandon Helfield , Hassan Rivaz

Perfusion by the microcirculation is key to the development, maintenance and pathology of tissue. Its measurement with high spatiotemporal resolution is consequently valuable but remains a challenge in deep tissue. Ultrasound Localization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Kai Riemer , Matthieu Toulemonde , Jipeng Yan , Marcelo Lerendegui , Eleanor Stride , Peter D. Weinberg , Christopher Dunsby , Meng-Xing Tang

Ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) enables microvascular imaging at spatial resolutions beyond the acoustic diffraction limit, offering significant clinical potentials. However, ULM performance relies heavily on microbubble (MB)…

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