k-Wave

A MATLAB toolbox for the time-domain simulation of acoustic wave fields
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Bradley Treeby (2026). k-Wave (https://github.com/ucl-bug/k-wave/releases/tag/v1.4.1), GitHub. Retrieved .

Treeby, Bradley E., et al. “Modeling Nonlinear Ultrasound Propagation in Heterogeneous Media with Power Law Absorption Using a \Lessi\Greaterk\Less/i\Greater-Space Pseudospectral Method.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 131, no. 6, Acoustical Society of America (ASA), June 2012, pp. 4324–36, doi:10.1121/1.4712021.

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1.4.1

See release notes for this release on GitHub: https://github.com/ucl-bug/k-wave/releases/tag/v1.4.1

1.4.0

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