Label-free super-resolution color flow imaging using ultrasound phase microscopy

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Hauptverfasser: Kou, Zhengchang, Zhang, Junhang, Gong, Chen, Ji, Jie, Sekaran, Nathiya Vaithiyalingam Chandra, Wang, Zikai, Miller, Rita J., Yang, Yaoheng, Llano, Daniel Adolfo, Zhou, Qifa, Oelze, Michael L.
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author Kou, Zhengchang
Zhang, Junhang
Gong, Chen
Ji, Jie
Sekaran, Nathiya Vaithiyalingam Chandra
Wang, Zikai
Miller, Rita J.
Yang, Yaoheng
Llano, Daniel Adolfo
Zhou, Qifa
Oelze, Michael L.
author_facet Kou, Zhengchang
Zhang, Junhang
Gong, Chen
Ji, Jie
Sekaran, Nathiya Vaithiyalingam Chandra
Wang, Zikai
Miller, Rita J.
Yang, Yaoheng
Llano, Daniel Adolfo
Zhou, Qifa
Oelze, Michael L.
contents Ultrasound vascular imaging is limited by acoustic diffraction, restricting visualization of microvessels essential for understanding organ function and disease. Label-free super-resolution methods exploiting endogenous red blood cells have faced challenges in acquisition time and complexity. Here we introduce ultrasound phase microscopy (UPM), a label-free technique that achieves sub-wavelength resolution flow imaging by exploiting phase differences between consecutively beamformed frames with mismatched apodizations, without requiring localization or tracking. Validated in vivo across multiple species, organs, and ultrasound platforms, UPM attains spatial resolutions better than 5 um up to tenfold improvement over conventional color flow imaging while accelerating data acquisition by nearly two orders of magnitude compared to ultrasound localization microscopy. UPM enables rapid, high resolution vascular imaging and offers a practical approach for label-free super-resolution vascular imaging.
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spellingShingle Label-free super-resolution color flow imaging using ultrasound phase microscopy
Kou, Zhengchang
Zhang, Junhang
Gong, Chen
Ji, Jie
Sekaran, Nathiya Vaithiyalingam Chandra
Wang, Zikai
Miller, Rita J.
Yang, Yaoheng
Llano, Daniel Adolfo
Zhou, Qifa
Oelze, Michael L.
Signal Processing
Ultrasound vascular imaging is limited by acoustic diffraction, restricting visualization of microvessels essential for understanding organ function and disease. Label-free super-resolution methods exploiting endogenous red blood cells have faced challenges in acquisition time and complexity. Here we introduce ultrasound phase microscopy (UPM), a label-free technique that achieves sub-wavelength resolution flow imaging by exploiting phase differences between consecutively beamformed frames with mismatched apodizations, without requiring localization or tracking. Validated in vivo across multiple species, organs, and ultrasound platforms, UPM attains spatial resolutions better than 5 um up to tenfold improvement over conventional color flow imaging while accelerating data acquisition by nearly two orders of magnitude compared to ultrasound localization microscopy. UPM enables rapid, high resolution vascular imaging and offers a practical approach for label-free super-resolution vascular imaging.
title Label-free super-resolution color flow imaging using ultrasound phase microscopy
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21384