Enhancing Row-column array (RCA)-based 3D ultrasound vascular imaging with spatial-temporal similarity weighting

J Zhang, C Huang, UW Lok, Z Dong… - IEEE transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound vascular imaging (UVI) is a valuable tool for monitoring the physiological states
and evaluating the pathological diseases. Advancing from conventional two-dimensional …

Ultrasensitive US microvessel imaging of hepatic microcirculation in the cirrhotic rat liver

W Zhang, C Huang, T Yin, X Miao, H Deng, R Zheng… - Radiology, 2022 - pubs.rsna.org
Background Liver microcirculation dysfunction plays a vital role in the occurrence and
development of liver diseases, and thus, there is a clinical need for in vivo, noninvasive, and …

Quantitative assessment of ultrasound microvessel imaging in Crohn's disease: correlation with pathological inflammation

UW Lok, S Tang, P Gong, T Smyrk, C Huang… - European …, 2024 - Springer
Objective Ultrasound microvessel imaging (UMI) may offer noninvasive, highly sensitive
microvessel imaging for assessing Crohn's disease (CD). However, a quantification metric …

Ultrasound Microvessel Imaging of the Human Placenta Demonstrates Altered Vessel Densities in Fetal Growth Restriction With Vascular and Immune Pathologies: A …

UW Lok, HM Scott, S Tang, J Santos… - … of Ultrasound in …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Fetal growth restriction (FGR) is commonly associated with placental dysfunction,
increasing perinatal morbidity and mortality. Visualizing placental vessels in utero would be …

Ultrasonographic evaluation of intestinal fibrosis and inflammation in Crohn's disease. The state of the art

F Ferretti, R Cannatelli, S Ardizzone, JA Maier… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The evaluation of the degree of inflammation and fibrosis, intrinsic elements in intestinal wall
damage of Crohn's disease, is essential to individuate the extent of the lesions and the …

Real-time Adaptive and Localized Spatiotemporal Clutter Filtering for Ultrasound Small Vessel Imaging

C Huang, UW Lok, J Zhang, H Liu, S Chen - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Effective clutter filtering is crucial in suppressing tissue clutter and extracting blood flow
signal in Doppler ultrasound. Recent advances in eigen-based clutter filtering techniques …

GPU-based Blockwise Non-Local Means Filtering with Microbubble Separation for 3D Ultrasound Localization Microscopy

UW Lok, JD Trzasko, C Huang, J Zhang… - 2024 IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) using a 2D matrix probe
and microbubbles (MBs) has been introduced to visualize microvasculature in three …

Improved Curvelet Transform-based Sparsity Promoting Algorithm for Fast Ultrasound Localization Microscopy

UW Lok, JD Trzasko, C Huang, J Zhang… - 2024 IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) utilizes the localization of individual microbubbles
(MBs) to surpass the conventional resolution limits of ultrasound imaging. Despite its …

Adaptive and Robust Vessel Quantification in Contrast-Free Ultrafast Ultrasound Microvessel Imaging

S Tang, C Huang, P Gong, UW Lok, C Zhou… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2022 - Elsevier
The morphological features of vasculature in diseased tissue differ significantly from those in
normal tissue. Therefore, vasculature quantification is crucial for disease diagnosis and …

[HTML][HTML] 经腹超声在克罗恩病中的应用

陈伟杰, 罗蕾蕾, 董志兴, 吴静, 顾星星, 卞兆连 - 世界华人消化杂志, 2022 - wjgnet.com
克罗恩病(Crohn's disease, CD) 是一种原因不明的慢性非特异性肠道炎症性疾病,
本病与溃疡性结肠炎(ulcerative colitis, UC) 统称为炎症性肠病(inflammatory bowel disease …