README.md

PALA for Open Platorm for Ultrasound Localization Microscopy

Repository to share scripts and functions for OPUS-PALA article, and LOTUS Software. All functions are usable with agreement from their owner.

DATE 2020.12.17 - VERSION 1.1

AUTHORS: Arthur Chavignon, Baptiste Heiles, Vincent Hingot. CNRS, Sorbonne Universite, INSERM.
Directed by: Olivier Couture, Research Director CNRS, Sorbonne Université, INSERM
Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomedicale, Team PPM. 15 rue de l'Ecole de Medecine, 75006, Paris
Code Available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
Partly funded by the European Research Council under the European Union Horizon H2020 programme/ERC Consolidator grant agreement No 772786-ResolveStroke

CORRESPONDING AUTHORS

Article, GUI LOTUS: Baptiste Heiles, baptiste.heiles@gmail.com
Materials, scripts, and codes: Arthur Chavignon, arthur.chavignon.pro@gmail.com
Collaborations, rights and others: Olivier Couture, olivier.couture@sorbonne-universite.fr

ACADEMIC REFERENCES TO BE CITED

Details of the code in the article by Heiles, Chavignon, Hingot, Lopez, Teston and Couture.
Performance benchmarking of microbubble-localization algorithms for ultrasound localization microscopy, Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2022 (10.1038/s41551-021-00824-8).

General description of super-resolution in: Couture et al., Ultrasound localization microscopy and super-resolution: A state of the art, IEEE UFFC 2018.

RELATED DATASET

Simulated and in vivo datasets are available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4343435.

For simulated dataset, raw radiofrequency data are available and can be processed with PALA_Beamforming provided by Alexandre Corazza.

DISCLAIMER

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

by BH, AC, VH, PL, ET, OC