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Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) is an emerging technique that employs the localization of echogenic microbubbles (MBs) to finely sample and image the microcirculation beyond the diffraction limit of ultrasound imaging. Conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Sepideh K. Gharamaleki , Brandon Helfield , Hassan Rivaz

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…

To overcome the half a wavelength resolution limitations of ultrasound imaging, microbubbles (MBs) have been utilized widely in the field. Conventional MB localization methods are limited whether by exhaustive parameter tuning or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Sepideh K. Gharamaleki , Brandon Helfield , Hassan Rivaz

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 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

Super-resolution ultrasound imaging through microbubble (MB) localisation and tracking, also known as ultrasound localisation microscopy, allows non-invasive sub-diffraction resolution imaging of microvasculature in animals and humans. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 Su Yan , Clotilde Vié , Marcelo Lerendegui , Herman Verinaz-Jadan , Jipeng Yan , Martina Tashkova , James Burn , Bingxue Wang , Gary Frost , Kevin G. Murphy , Meng-Xing Tang

Generation of super-resolution (SR) ultrasound (US) images, created from the successive local-ization of individual microbubbles in the circulation, has enabled the visualization of microvascular structure and flow at a level of detail that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-19 Scott Schoen , Zhigen Zhao , Ashley Alva , Chengwu Huang , Shigao Chen , Costas Arvanitis

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 imaging (SRUS) is an active area of research as it brings up to a ten-fold improvement in the resolution of microvascular structures. The limitations to the clinical adoption of SRUS include long acquisition…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-05 Arthur David Redfern , Katherine G. Brown

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

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

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

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

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) 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

Super-resolution ultrasound (SRUS) imaging through localising and tracking sparse microbubbles has been shown to reveal microvascular structure and flow beyond the wave diffraction limit. Most SRUS studies use standard delay and sum (DAS)…

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

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…

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a widely used medical imaging modality. However, due to the limitations in hardware, scan time, and throughput, it is often clinically challenging to obtain high-quality MR images. The super-resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-20 Qing Lyu , Hongming Shan , Ge Wang

Super-resolution ultrasound via microbubble (MB) localisation and tracking, also known as ultrasound localisation microscopy (ULM), can resolve microvasculature beyond the acoustic diffraction limit. However, significant challenges remain…

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