Super-resolution ultrasound imaging

K Christensen-Jeffries, O Couture, PA Dayton… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2020 - Elsevier
The majority of exchanges of oxygen and nutrients are performed around vessels smaller
than 100 μm, allowing cells to thrive everywhere in the body. Pathologies such as cancer …

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 …

Ultrafast ultrasound localization microscopy for deep super-resolution vascular imaging

C Errico, J Pierre, S Pezet, Y Desailly, Z Lenkei… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Non-invasive imaging deep into organs at microscopic scales remains an open quest in
biomedical imaging. Although optical microscopy is still limited to surface imaging owing to …

Ultrafast imaging in biomedical ultrasound

M Tanter, M Fink - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although the use of ultrasonic plane-wave transmissions rather than line-per-line focused
beam transmissions has been long studied in research, clinical application of this …

3D ultrafast ultrasound imaging in vivo

J Provost, C Papadacci, JE Arango… - Physics in Medicine …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Very high frame rate ultrasound imaging has recently allowed for the extension of the
applications of echography to new fields of study such as the functional imaging of the brain …

Molecular ultrasound imaging: current status and future directions

N Deshpande, A Needles, JK Willmann - Clinical radiology, 2010 - Elsevier
Targeted contrast-enhanced ultrasound (molecular ultrasound) is an emerging imaging
strategy that combines ultrasound technology with novel molecularly-targeted ultrasound …

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 …

Microbubbles for human diagnosis and therapy

L Fournier, T de La Taille, C Chauvierre - Biomaterials, 2023 - Elsevier
Microbubbles (MBs) were observed for the first time in vivo as a curious consequence of
quick saline injection during ultrasound (US) imaging of the aortic root, more than 50 years …

Ultrasound localization microscopy to image and assess microvasculature in a rat kidney

J Foiret, H Zhang, T Ilovitsh, L Mahakian, S Tam… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
The recent development of ultrasound localization microscopy, where individual
microbubbles (contrast agents) are detected and tracked within the vasculature, provides …

Detection and tracking of multiple microbubbles in ultrasound B-mode images

D Ackermann, G Schmitz - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The imaging of microvessels and the quantification of their blood flow is of particular interest
in the characterization of tumor vasculature. The imaging resolution (50-200 μm) of …