IVUSSim

Welcome to IVUSSim website

Contact: fernando.okara@gmail.com

IVUSSim is a citationware and may be used free of charge for research and educational purposes. If you are publishing any work, where this package has been utilized, please refer to the papers shown below and mention the name of the program IVUSSim in your publication.

[1] Cardoso FM, Moraes MC, Furuie SS. Realistic IVUS image generation in Different Intraluminal Pressures, Ultrasound Med Biol 2012;38(12):2104-2119.

[2] Cardoso FM, Moraes MC, Furuie SS. Aframework to create realistic IVUS phantoms for different intraluminal pressures In: Proceedings of the Computing in Cardiology 2011, Hangzhou, China, New York: IEEE, 2011:333–336.

Download IVUSSim package for Matlab

Requirements:

Matlab (2009a or earlier) with Image Processing Toolbox

Field_II_package (version xx) from Jensen e al.*

This work was financially supported by:

São Paulo Research Foundation

Brazilian National Council of Scientific and Technological Development

*[1] J.A. Jensen: Field: A Program for Simulating Ultrasound Systems, Paper presented at the 10th Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Imaging Published in Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, pp. 351-353, Volume 34, Supplement 1, Part 1, 1996.

[2] J.A. Jensen and N. B. Svendsen: Calculation of pressure fields from arbitrarily shaped, apodized, and excited ultrasound transducers, IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferroelec., Freq. Contr., 39, pp. 262-267, 1992.