USER GUIDE

Download the USER GUIDE (update: 2024-06) for a description of MUST functions and examples (PDF).

This flowchart shows how MUST functions should typically be used:

WHAT’S INSIDE MUST?

The theory in MUST has been presented here and there, during IUS short courses and a TUFFC international school, or in some articles (list below). A two-part article that thoroughly describes the theory of the simulator and compares PFIELD and SIMUS with other simulators has been published in Comput Methods Programs Biomed. PFIELD and SIMUS use the linear acoustic far-field and paraxial equations in the Fourier domain.

• Garcia D, Varray F. SIMUS3: an open-source simulator for 3-D ultrasound imaging. Comput Methods Programs Biomed, 2024;250:108169.
  
  (the theory of SIMUS3, PDF)

• Garcia D. Make the most of MUST, an open-source MATLAB UltraSound Toolbox. IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, 2021.
  
  (an IUS proceeding that introduces MUST, PDF)

• Garcia D. SIMUS: an open-source simulator for ultrasound imaging. Part I: theory & examples. Comput Methods Programs Biomed, 2022;218:106726.
  
  (the theory of PFIELD and SIMUS, PDF)

• Cigier A, Varray F, Garcia D. SIMUS: an open-source simulator for ultrasound imaging. Part II: comparison with four simulators. Comput Methods Programs Biomed, 2022; doi:10.1016/j.cmpb.2022.106774.
  
  (how PFIELD and SIMUS compare to other simulators, PDF)

• Perrot V, Polichetti M, Varray F, Garcia D. So you think you can DAS? A viewpoint on delay-and-sum beamforming. Ultrasonics, 2021;111:106309.
  
  (a short history of nearly everything about DAS, PDF)

• Porée J, Posada D, Hodzic A, Tournoux F, Cloutier G, Garcia D. High-frame-rate echocardiography using coherent compounding with Doppler-based motion-compensation. IEEE Trans Med Imaging, 2016;35:1647-1657.
  
  (the supplemental content explains how PFIELD works for a 2-D space, PDF)

• Shahriari S, Garcia D. Meshfree simulations of ultrasound vector flow imaging using smoothed particle hydrodynamics. Phys Med Biol, 2018;63:205011.
  
  (the very first paper that uses SIMUS; briefly explains how SIMUS works in 2-D, PDF)

• Madiena C, Faurie J, Porée J, Garcia D. Color and vector flow imaging in parallel ultrasound with sub-Nyquist sampling. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control, 2018;65:795-802.
  
  (on color Doppler and vector Doppler, PDF)

• Perrot V, Garcia D. Back to basics in ultrasound velocimetry: tracking speckles by using a standard PIV algorithm. IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, 2018.
  
  (on speckle tracking by FFT-based cross-correlation, PDF)