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Welcome to Frontiers in Imaging, Spectroscopy and Theranostic (FIST) Lab

Interests

Our team works on developing novel systems for improved sensing, diagnosis, and therapeutic approaches, targeted towards biological and medical theranostics. FIST lab aims to achieve non-invasive investigation of physiological and molecular processes in tissues at unprecedented depth to resolution ratio. These systems will be developed to diagnose/understand life-threatening diseases like atherosclerosis, cancer and infectious diseases. The FIST lab will also focus on developing real-time computational methods in different scientific areas like non-destructive testing (NDT), and medical imaging.

Funding

IISc Startup Grant

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Department of Biotechnology (DBT)

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Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)

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Shell Technology Center, Bengaluru

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Infosys Foundation

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Meggitt [CSR]

Facilities

Tunable Nanosecond Pulsed Laser; Laser Diodes

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Transducer Arrays

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BSL Cabinet, CO2 Incubator, Microscope, Centrifuges

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ESD bench and associate accessories

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Tissue based phantom preparation bench and consumables

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Electronics- Function Generators, Oscilloscopes, Power Supplies, Amplifiers, DAQ cards, Pulser-Reciever

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Computational Infrastructure [Two High-end DL workstations with two 42 GB Nvidia cards]

Who are we

Team

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Jaya Prakash
(Principal Investigator)

Tarun Garg

PhD Student [IMI] 

[jointly with Dr, Vaanathi Sundaresan]

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Swathi Padmanabhan
PhD Student

Aman Dubey
MTech[Res]

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Isha
PhD Student

Poojary Naga Pradeep
MTech[Research]
with Prof. Sanjiv Sambandan

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Anandhu A. S. 

PhD Student

Shashikant Giri
MTech Student

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Harigovind J. R.
PhD Student

Nirmal S.
Thesis Student [BITS]

Puneeth Gangarapu
Project Staff

Sumanth S. P.
MTech Student

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Lab Alumni

MTech/MTech[Research]
Yash Dravid Sachin; MTech[Res] Student 
Arumugaraj M;MTech[Research] Student
Kajal Chowdhary; MTech Student

Interns and Project Staff:
Mr. Hemanth S. N. [Dayanand Sagar]
Ms. Yukti Diwedhi [Thapar Institute]
Ms. Sharon Shajan [IIST-TVM]
Mr. Jawad T. P. [CUSAT]
Mr. Tejas [MSRIT]
Mr. Rishaab Pavan [MSRIT]
Mr. Rakshit P [NITK]
Mr. Sai Koudinya [KIMS, Bengaluru]
Mrs. Chaitra B. S. [Lab Manager]

 

How it works
Testimonials

Publications

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  • Jaya Prakash*, Mir Mehdi Seyedebrahimi*, Ara Ghazaryan*, Jaber Malekzadeh-Najafabadi, Vipul Gujrati, and Vasilis Ntziachristos, “Short wavelength optoacoustic spectroscopy based on water muting,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117(8), 4007-4014 (2020).

  • Vipul Gujrati*, Jaya Prakash*, Jaber Malekzadeh-Najafabadi, Andre Stiel, Uwe Klemm, Ruth Hillermann, Gabriele Mettenleiter, Michaela Aichler, Axel Walch, Vasilis Ntziachristos, “Bioengineered bacterial vesicles as biological nano-heaters for optoacoustic imaging,” Nature Communications 10(1), 1114, (2019).

  • Jaya Prakash*, Dween Sanny*, Sandeep K. Kalva, Manojit Pramanik, and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, ”Fractional regularization to improve photoacoustic tomographic image reconstruction,” IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 38(8), 1935-1947 (2019).

  • Jaber Malekzadeh*, Jaya Prakash*, and Vasilis Ntziachristos, ”Nonlinear optoacoustic readings from diffusive media at near infrared wavelengths,” Journal of Biophotonics 11(1), e201600310 (2018).

  • Jaya Prakash, Aditi Subramani Raju, Calvin B. Shaw, Manojit Pramanik, and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, “Basis pursuit deconvolution for improving model-based reconstructed images in photoacoustic tomography,” Biomedical Optics Express 5(5), 1363-1377 (2014).

  • Nick Todd, Jaya Prakash, Henrik Odeen, Joshua de Bever, Allison Payne, Phaneendra Yalavarthy, and Dennis Parker, “Towards real-time availability of 3-D temperature maps created with temporally constrained reconstruction,” Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 71(4), 1394-1404 (2014).

  • Jaya Prakash and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, “A LSQR-type method provides a computationally efficient automated optimal choice of regularization parameter in diffuse optical tomography,” Medical Physics 40(3), 033101 (2013).

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Tel: 080-2293 2274

A106, Instrumentation and Applied Physics, IISc,

Bengaluru, India - 560 012

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