This project is a Python implementation of v1.4.0 of the MATLAB toolbox k-Wave as well as an interface to the pre-compiled v1.3 of k-Wave simulation binaries, which support NVIDIA sm 5.0 (Maxwell) to sm 9.0a (Hopper) GPUs.

With this project, we hope to increase the accessibility and reproducibility of k-Wave simulations for medical imaging, algorithmic prototyping, and testing. Many tools and methods of k-Wave can be found here, but this project has and will continue to diverge from the original k-Wave APIs to leverage pythonic practices.

A large collection of examples exists to get started with k-wave-python. All examples can be run in Google Colab notebooks with a few clicks. One can begin with e.g. the B-mode reconstruction example notebook.

This example file steps through the process of:

1. Generating a simulation medium
2. Configuring a transducer
3. Running the simulation
4. Reconstructing the simulation

To install the most recent build of k-Wave-python from PyPI, run:

pip install k-wave-python

After installing the Python package, the required binaries will be downloaded and installed the first time you run a simulation.

If you're enjoying k-Wave-python and want to contribute, development instructions can be found here.

1. k-Wave: A MATLAB toolbox for the time-domain simulation of acoustic wave fields.
2. j-wave: Differentiable acoustic simulations in JAX.
3. ADSeismic.jl: a finite difference acoustic simulator with support for AD and JIT compilation in Julia.
4. stride: a general optimisation framework for medical ultrasound tomography.

The documentation for k-wave-python can be found here.

@software{k-Wave-Python,
author = {Yagubbbayli, Farid and Sinden, David and Simson, Walter},
license = {GPL-3.0},
title = {{k-Wave-Python}},
url = {https://github.com/waltsims/k-wave-python}
}

e-mail wsimson@stanford.edu.