v1.2.3 Release

What's Changed

• Added pressure field calculation support via Field II and k-Wave
• Added matrix division support for ChannelData
• Added support for multiple segments in ray-integral calculations
• Various memory and performance optimizations
• Various bug fixes

Full Changelog: v1.2.2...v1.2.3

v1.2.2

What's Changed

• Improved Sequence parsing for Verasonics structs
• Minor bug fixes

Full Changelog: v1.2.1...v1.2.2

v1.2.1 Release

What's Changed

• Added UltrasoundSystem.apCosineAngle() apodization generator
• Added mexcuda support to UltrasoundSystem.recompileCUDA()
• Bug fixes (#37, #39, #40)

Full Changelog: v1.2.0...v1.2.1

v1.2.0 Release

What's Changed

• Add Contributing Guidelines and Update README by @thorstone25 in #35
• Most beamfomers now accept multiple apodization ND-arrays
• Various performance improvements and minor bug fixes

New Features

• ChannelData has expanded Arithmetic and Linear Algebra support
• Added CUDA / OpenCL kernel call caching to improve performance / stability
• New beamforming_walkthrough.mlx imaging tutorial

Full Changelog: v1.1.2...v1.2.0

v1.1.2

Changes

• Bug fix for UltrasoundSystem.kspaceFirstOrder()

Full Changelog: v1.1.1...v1.1.2

v1.1.1

What's Changed

Bug Fixes:

• ChannelData.downsample() - sampling frequency divided twice
• UltrasoundSystem.copyElement() - handles loading a system from a mat-file

Updates:

• ChannelData.Verasonics() - supports matrix transducers
• UltrasoundSystem.UFF() - accepts empty (default) scan
• kWave patch - if recording pressure vs. time, always allocate storage on CPU

Full Changelog: v1.1.0...v1.1.1

v1.1.0

What's Changed

• Added methods
  • UltrasoundSystem.apTxParallelogram()
  • Scatterers.Verasonics()
• Removed (broken) 3D eikonal extension
• Improved display for heterogeneous arrays
• Testing infrastructure expanded and streamlined
• Minor internal signature changes
  • UltrasoundSystem.greens() - input keyword changed to 'parenv' from 'penv' (consistent with other methods)
  • xiaolinwu kernel requires all inputs
  • Some deprecated functions removed
• Various bug fixes

Full Changelog: v1.0.1...v1.1.0

v1.0.1 Release

What's Changed

• Updated README
• Example scripts bug fix
• Improved testing workflow

Full Changelog: v1.0.0...v1.0.1

Version 1.0 Release!

v1.0.0 Release

New Features

• MATLAB Project for initialization and dependency management
• [R2023b+] MATLAB buildtool support for compiling binaries, installing and patching simulation and acceleration extension packages, and running tests
• FieldII support for rotated / translated transducers
• FieldII and k-Wave support for separate transmit / receive transducers
• More OpenCL support (requires working Matlab-OpenCL package)
• Heterogeneous array support for all Transducer, Scan, and Sequence types.
• Added zero-normalized cross-correlation function (pwznxcorr())
• Added active aperture apodization and focal sequence generator utilities (Transducer.focActive(), Sequence.apWalking())
• Aperture growth apodization expanded to Convex probes (contribution by @l-l-z closes #10 )
• Added coarse benchmark test for simulation, beamforming

Changes

• Removed UltrasoundSystem.pulse property
• CUDA setup switched from "CUDA_PATH" to "MW_NVCC_PATH" to align with R2023a mexcuda changes
• Sequences have .apd and .del properties to support transmit apodization / delay matrices
• Green's function includes propagation loss
• Modified display for Scan classes
• Datatype compatibility improvements
• Attenuation units modified to support unit scale methods

v1.0.0-alpha Release

New Features

• Added pcf (phase coherence factor) compute kernel
• Verasonics importers for Waveforms, Sequences, and ChannelData w/ example script
• Transducer types support rotation as well as translation
• Added more documentation
• Added more processing "block size" arguments to limit memory usage
• Improved compute performance

Changes

• Added "FC" and "DV" Sequence type options to replace "VS" and disambiguate focused versus diverging wave models
• animate: inputs changed