We provide an easy beamforming code to reconstruct radiofrequency data (RF) provided in the dataset. This beamformer was NOT used for this study and was NOT included in the review process. It can help to understand RF data to compare various beamforming technics used for Ultrasound Localization Microscopy.
This code was written by Alexandre Corazza, 13/10/2021, and merged to PALA by Arthur Chavignon 03/03/2022.
The Delay-and-Sum algorithm was inspired from the function dasmtx.m of MUST (Matlab UltraSound Toolbox) www.biomecardio.com by Damien Garcia.
Reference on DAS beamforming: So you think you can DAS? A viewpoint on delay-and-sum beamforming, Ultrasonics, 2021.
Reference on Capon beamforming and covariance matrix estimation: Asl BM, Mahloojifar A. Contrast enhancement and robustness improvement of adaptive ultrasound imaging using forward-backward minimum variance beamforming. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control. 2011 Apr;58(4):858-67. doi: 10.1109/TUFFC.2011.1880. PMID: 21507765.
Reference on pDAS beamforming: M.; Varray, F.; Béra, J.-C.; Cachard, C.; Nicolas, B. A Nonlinear Beamformer Based on p-th Root Compression—Application to Plane Wave Ultrasound Imaging. Appl. Sci. 2018, 8, 599. https://doi.org/10.3390/app8040599
Reference on iMAP beamforming: Chernyakova, T. & Eldar, Y. C. (2019) Ultrasound imaging using iterative maximum a-posteriori beamforming. [online]. Available from: https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2019142085A1/en?oq=WO2019142085.
Beamformed images may be worse than those provided by Verasonics Vantage beamformer. All results and scores of the article have been computed on images provided by Vantage beamforming. Computing metrics on this homemade beamformer may result in biased scores.
Simulated and in vivo datasets are available on Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.4343435.
RF data are available for PALA_data_InSilicoFlow and PALA_data_InSilicoPSF datasets.
This folder must be used with the PALA toolbox https://github.com/AChavignon/PALA/tree/master/PALA.
It must be placed in /PALA/PALA_Beamforming.
Before running scripts, two paths are required and have to be set in PALA_SetUpPaths.m to your computer environment:
PALA_addons_folder: the addons folder with all dedicated functions for PALAPALA_data_folder: root path of your data folder
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