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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

Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) has presented great potential in functional imaging, benefiting from its ability to reconstruct deep microvasculature. However, the hemodynamic reconstruction is compromised by sparsity in the ULM…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Jipeng Yan , Oscar Bates , Jingwen Zhu , Qingyuan Tan , Biao Huang , John Goodwin , Andriy S. Kozlov , Chris Dunsby , Meng-Xing Tang

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 has enabled super-resolution vascular imaging through precise localization of individual ultrasound contrast agents (microbubbles) across numerous imaging frames. However, analysis of high-density regions…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-14 Ruud J. G. van Sloun , Oren Solomon , Matthew Bruce , Zin Z. Khaing , Hessel Wijkstra , Yonina C. Eldar , Massimo Mischi

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

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

Three-dimensional ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) enables comprehensive visualization of the vasculature, thereby improving diagnostic reliability. Nevertheless, its clinical translation remains challenging, as the exponential…

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

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

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…

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…

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…

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

Super-resolution ultrasound imaging with ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) offers a high-resolution view of microvascular structures. Yet, ULM image quality heavily relies on precise microbubble (MB) detection. Despite the crucial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Sepideh K. Gharamaleki , Brandon Helfield , Hassan Rivaz

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

Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) relies on the injection of microbubbles (MBs) to obtain highly resolved density maps of blood circulation in vivo, with a resolution that can reach 10 {\mu}m ~ {\lambda}/10 in the rodent brain.…

Mapping blood microflows of the whole brain is crucial for early diagnosis of cerebral diseases. Ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) was recently applied to map and quantify blood microflows in 2D in the brain of adult patients down to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Hugues Favre , Mathieu Pernot , Mickael Tanter , Clément Papadacci

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
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