Ultrafast Ultrasound Imaging: Methods, Technologies, and Future Directions
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Acoustics and Vibrations".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2027 | Viewed by 12
Editors
Interests: beamforming methods; high frame rate imaging; ultrasound simulation; arrays design; systems design
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Interests: ultrasound systems design; FPGA firmware; high frame rate imaging; ultraportable ultrasound
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ultrafast ultrasound imaging has transformed biomedical imaging by enabling unprecedented frame rates and opening new possibilities for visualizing highly dynamic physiological processes. Through unfocused wave transmissions, synthetic aperture techniques, advanced beamforming strategies, and high-performance computing, ultrafast imaging overcomes the temporal resolution limits of conventional ultrasound systems, providing enhanced capabilities for functional and quantitative imaging.
This Special Issue aims to present a comprehensive collection of recent advances in ultrafast ultrasound imaging. Contributions are invited on novel imaging methodologies, advanced signal and image processing techniques, and real-time system architectures, including GPU/FPGA-based implementations and innovative transducer technologies. Particular emphasis will be placed on emerging applications such as super-resolution imaging, vector flow imaging, elastography, and multimodal approaches.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Beamforming and image reconstruction techniques: novel transmission schemes and beamforming strategies, aberration correction, denoising and reconstruction enhancement
- Ultrafast flow imaging: high-sensitivity Doppler, microvascular imaging, velocity and flow estimation, clutter suppression and advanced filtering
- Super-resolution and nonlinear imaging: microbubble tracking, ultrasound localization microscopy, super-resolution, nonlinear and cavitation imaging
- Functional and neuroimaging: brain mapping, hemodynamic response imaging, signal separation
- Quantitative ultrasound imaging: shear wave imaging, elastography, viscoelastic parameter estimation, speed of sound estimation, attenuation and backscatter coefficient mapping
- Cardiovascular imaging: tissue motion, cardiac, shear-wave and strain imaging
- Transducers and Systems: array and probe technologies for 2D and 3D ultrafast imaging, high-throughput acquisition, real-time imaging pipelines and hardware acceleration, data compression and data rate management, novel systems for high frame rate
Dr. Alessandro Ramalli
Dr. Valentino Meacci
Guest Editors
Dr. Daniele Mazierli
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- beamforming and image reconstruction techniques
- ultrafast flow imaging
- super-resolution and nonlinear imaging
- functional and neuroimaging
- quantitative ultrasound imaging
- cardiovascular imaging
- transducers and systems
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