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Ultrasound-matter interactions underpin numerous biomedical and soft-matter applications, yet simulating these phenomena is challenging due to the large separation of viscous and sonic time scales. Continuum methods capture large-scale wave…

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Ultrasound contrast enhanced imaging has seen widespread uptake in research and clinical diagnostic imaging. This includes applications such as vector flow imaging, functional ultrasound and super-resolution Ultrasound Localization…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Marcelo Lerendegui , Kai Riemer , Bingxue Wang , Christopher Dunsby , Meng-Xing Tang

Ultrasound sensors have wide applications across science and technology. However, improved sensitivity is required for both miniaturisation and increased spatial resolution. Here, we introduce cavity optomechanical ultrasound sensing, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-17 Sahar Basiri-Esfahani , Ardalan Armin , Stefan Forstner , Warwick P. Bowen

Solving intractable mathematical problems in simulators composed of atoms, ions, photons or electrons has recently emerged as a subject of intense interest. Here we extend this concept to phonons that are localised in spectrally pure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 I. Mahboob , H. Yamaguchi

Airborne 3D imaging using ultrasound is a promising sensing modality for robotic applications in harsh environments. Over the last decade, several high-performance systems have been proposed in the literature. Most of these sensors use a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-21 Dennis Laurijssen , Walter Daems , Jan Steckel

Functional ultrasound (fUS) imaging provides exceptional spatiotemporal resolution for neurovascular mapping, yet its practical application is significantly hampered by critical challenges. Foremost among these are data scarcity, arising…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Xuhang Chen , Zhuo Li , Yanyan Shen , Mufti Mahmud , Hieu Pham , Chi-Man Pun , Shuqiang Wang

Super-resolution ultrasound (SRUS) technology has overcome the resolution limitations of conventional ultrasound, enabling micrometer-scale imaging of microvasculature. However, due to the nature of imaging principles, three-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Jincao Yao , Ke Zhang , Yahan Zhou , Jiafei Shen , Jie Liu , Mudassar Ali , Bojian Feng , Jiye Chen , Jinlong Fan , Ping Liang , Dong Xu

Simulated ultrasound image sequences are key for training and validating machine learning algorithms for left ventricular strain estimation. Several simulation pipelines have been proposed to generate sequences with corresponding ground…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Thierry Judge , Nicolas Duchateau , Khuram Faraz , Pierre-Marc Jodoin , Olivier Bernard

Ultrasound imaging is developing an open-source ecosystem, especially for software frameworks. Little exists on the open-hardware side. Hence a focus was put on producing easy-to-use technological (hardware and software) kit to allow anyone…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-07-16 Luc Jonveaux

In the field of biomedical imaging, ultrasonography has become increasingly widespread, and an important auxiliary diagnostic tool with unique advantages, such as being non-ionising and often portable. This article reviews the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-08 Tianqi Yang , Oktay Karakuş , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , Alin Achim

Medical ultrasound imaging is the most widespread real-time non-invasive imaging system and its formulation comprises signal transmission, signal reception, and image formation. Ultrasound signal transmission modelling has been formalized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Chiara Razzetta , Valentina Candiani , Marco Crocco , Federico Benvenuto

We present MIMO FOR MATLAB (MFM), a toolbox for MATLAB that aims to simplify the simulation of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems research while facilitating reproducibility, consistency, and community-driven…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-10 Ian P. Roberts

We developed a Bessel-beam photoacoustic microscopical simulation platform by using the k-Wave: MATLAB toolbox. The simulation platform uses the ring slit method to generate Bessel beam. By controlling the inner and outer radius of the ring…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Xianlin Song , Jianshuang Wei , Lingfang Song

Fullwave simulations are applied to an intercostal imaging scenario to determine the sources of fundamental and harmonic image degradation with respect to aberration and reverberation. These simulations are based on Part I of this two part…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 Gianmarco Pinton

Accurate volumetric characterization of lesions is essential for oncologic diagnosis, risk stratification, and treatment planning. While imaging modalities such as Computed Tomography provide high-quality 3D data, 2D ultrasound (2D-US)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Kian Wei Ng , Yujia Gao , Deborah Khoo , Ying Zhen Tan , Chengzheng Mao , Haojie Cheng , Andrew Makmur , Kee Yuan Ngiam , Serene Goh , Eng Tat Khoo

We present a description of the capabilities and performance of the NAval Ultra-Trace Isotope Laboratory's Universal Spectrometer (NAUTILUS) at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. The NAUTILUS combines secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-02-06 Evan E. Groopman , David G. Willingham , Albert J. Fahey , Kenneth S. Grabowski

Microscopy is routinely used to image biological structures of interest. Due to imaging constraints, acquired images, also called as micrographs, are typically low-SNR and contain noise. Over the last few years, regression-based tasks like…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Ashesh Ashesh , Joran Deschamps , Florian Jug

Traditional ultrasound simulators solve the wave equation to model pressure distribution fields, achieving high accuracy but requiring significant computational time and resources. To address this, ray tracing approaches have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Felix Duelmer , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Magdalena Wysocki , Nassir Navab

Four-dimensional ultrasound imaging of complex biological systems such as the brain is technically challenging because of the spatiotemporal sampling requirements. We present computational ultrasound imaging (cUSi), a new imaging method…

The World Space Observatory - Ultraviolet (WSO-UV) space telescope is equipped with high dispersion (55,000) spectrographs working in the 1150-3100 {\AA} spectral range. To evaluate the impact of the design on the scientific objectives of…

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