PHANEENDRA K. YALAVARTHY

Patents

1. Devices and methods for combined optical and magnetic resonance imaging (US Patent No: US 8886284 B2); Inventors: Pogue, B. W. and Carpenter, C. M. and Davis, S. C. and Paulsen, K. D. and Yalavarthy, P. K. and Dehghani, H.

2. Method and system for performing deconvolution in perfusion imaging (Indian Patent No: 3397/CHE/2015); Inventors: Yalavarthy, P. K. and Reddy, K. V. and  Lee, J.
   
3. Methods for fast deconvolution in perfusion imaging (Indian Patent No: 6025/CHE/2015); Inventors: Reddy, K. V. and Yalavarthy, P. K. 
4. Method and system for stereo-visual localization of object (International Patent No: WO2018226050); Inventors: Venkatesan, S. M., Yalavarthy, P. K. and Annamalai, T.
   

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2019

2018

(48). Dween R. Sanny, Jaya Prakash, Sandeep K. Kalva, Manojit Pramanik, and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, "Spatially variant regularization based on model resolution and fidelity embedding characteristics improves photoacoustic tomography," Journal of Biomedical Optics 23(10), 100502 (2018). [doi: 10.1117/1.JBO.23.10.100502]

(47). Sreedevi Gutta, Sandeep K. Kalva, Manojit Pramanik, and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, "Accelerated image reconstruction using extrapolated Tikhonov filtering for photoacoustic tomography," Medical Physics 45(8), 3749-3767 (2018). [doi: 10.1002/mp.13023]

(46). Navchetan Awasthi, Sandeep K. Kalva, Manojit Pramanik, and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, "Image Guided Filtering for Improving Photoacoustic Tomographic Image Reconstruction," Journal of Biomedical Optics 23(9), 091413 (2018). [doi: 10.1117/1.JBO.23.9.091413]

(45). Navchetan Awasthi, Sandeep K. Kalva, Manojit Pramanik, and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, "Vector Extrapolation Methods for Accelerating Iterative Reconstruction Methods in Limited-Data Photoacoustic Tomography," Journal of Biomedical Optics 23(7), 071204 (2018). [doi: 10.1117/1.JBO.23.7.071204]

2017

(44). Sreedevi Gutta, Venkata S. Kadimesetty, Sandeep K. Kalva, Manojit Pramanik, Sriram Ganapathy, and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, "Deep Neural Network based Bandwidth Enhancement of Photoacoustic Data," Journal of Biomedical Optics 22(11), 116001 (2017). [doi: 10.1117/1.JBO.22.11.116001]

(43). Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, "Editorial: Special Issue on Applied Computational Science and Engineering," Journal of the Indian Institute of Science 97(3), 311 (2017). [doi: 10.1007/s41745-017-0039-z]

(42). Naren Rao, Haris Jeelani, Rashmin Achalia, Garima Achalia, Arpitha Jacob, Rose dawn Bharath, Shivarama Varambally, Ganesan Venkatasubramanian, and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, "Population differences in Brain morphology: Need for population specific Brain template," Psychiatry research: Neuroimaging 265, 1-8 (2017). [doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2017.03.018]

2016

(41). Manish Bhatt, Atithi Acharya, and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, "Computationally efficient error estimate for evaluation of regularization in photoacoustic tomography," Journal of Biomedical Optics 21(10), 106002 (2016). [doi: 10.1117/1.JBO.21.10.106002]

(40). Manish Bhatt, Sreedevi Gutta, and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, "Exponential Filtering of Singular Values Improves Photoacoustic Image Reconstruction," Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics, Imaging Science, and Vision 33(9), 1785-1792 (2016). [doi: 10.1364/JOSAA.33.001785]

(39). Manish Bhatt, Kalyan R. Ayyalasomayajula, and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, "A Generalized Beer-Lambert Model for Near Infrared Light Propagation in Thick Biological Tissues," Journal of Biomedical Optics 21(7), 076012 (2016). [doi: 10.1117/1.JBO.21.7.076012]

(38). Calvin B. Shaw, Zhiqiu Li, Brian W. Pogue, and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, "Direct sensitivity based data-optimization strategy for image-guided diffuse optical tomography," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (Issue on biophotonics) 22(3), 6803709 (2016). [doi:10.1109/JSTQE.2016.2558178]

2015

(37). Jaya Prakash, Nick Todd, and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, “Prior Image based Temporally Constrained Reconstruction (PITCR) algorithm for Magnetic Resonance guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound," Medical Physics 42(12), 6804-6814 (2015). [doi: 10.1118/1.4934829] 

2014

(36). Jaya Prakash, Nick Todd, and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, “Advances in Image Reconstruction Methods for Real-Time Magnetic Resonance Thermometry," Journal of the Indian Institute of Science (Issue on Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging) 94(4), 387-406 (2014).

(35). Jaya Prakash, Aditi S. 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). [Featured in Top Downloads from Biomedical Optics Express for Image Reconstruction and Inverse Problems]

(34). Calvin B. Shaw and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, "Performance evaluation of typical approximation algorithms for non-convex Lp-minimization in diffuse optical tomography," Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics, Imaging Science, and Vision 31(4), 852-862 (2014). [CODE]

(33). Jaya Prakash, Hamid Dehghani, Brian W. Pogue, and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, “Model-Resolution based Basis Pursuit Deconvolution Improves Diffuse Optical Tomographic Imaging,” IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 33(4), 891-901 (2014). [CODE]   

(32).  Nick Todd, Jaya Prakash, Henrik Odéen, Josh de Bever, Allison Payne, Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, and Dennis L. Parker, “Toward real-time availability of 3-D temperature maps created with temporally constrained reconstruction," Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 71(4), 1394-1404 (2014).

2013

(29). Calvin B. Shaw, Jaya Prakash, Manojit Pramanik, and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, “Least Squares QR-based decomposition provides an efficient way of computing optimal regularization parameter in photoacoustic tomography," Journal of Biomedical Optics 18(8), 080501 (2013).

(28). Ravi P. K. Jagannath and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, “Non-Quadratic Penalization Improves Near Infrared Diffuse Optical Tomography," Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics, Imaging Science, and Vision 30(8), 1516–1523 (2013).

(27). Ravi P. K. Jagannath and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, “An Efficient Gradient-Free Simplex Method for Estimation of Optical Properties in Image-Guided Diffuse Optical Tomography," Journal of Biomedical Optics 18(3), 030503 (2013).[CODE]

(26). 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). [CODE]

(25). Kalyan R. Ayyalasomayajula and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, “Analytical Solutions for Diffuse Fluorescence Spectroscopy/Imaging of Biological Tissues in Regular Geometries Part II: Comparison and Validation," Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics, Imaging Science, and Vision 30(3), 553-559 (2013).

(24). Kalyan R. Ayyalasomayajula and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, “Analytical Solutions for Diffuse Fluorescence Spectroscopy/Imaging of Biological Tissues in Regular Geometries Part I: Zero and Extrapolated Boundary Conditions," Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics, Imaging Science, and Vision 30(3), 537-552 (2013).

(23). Sashikumaar Ganesan and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, "Modeling of Terahertz Heating Effects in Realistic Tissues," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (Issue on current trends in terahertz photonics and applications) 19(1), 8400908 (2013).

(22). Jaya Prakash and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, "Data-resolution based optimal choice of minimum required measurements for image-guided diffuse optical tomography," Optics Letters 38(2), 88-90 (2013).

(21). Calvin B. Shaw and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, "Prior image-constrained L1-norm-based reconstruction method for effective usage of structural information in diffuse optical tomography," Optics Letters 37(20), 4353-4355 (2012).

(20). Ravi P. K. Jagannath and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, “Minimal Residual Method Provides Optimal Regularization Parameter for Diffuse Optical Tomography," Journal of Biomedical Optics 17(10), 106015:1-7 (2012). [CODE]  

(19). Calvin B. Shaw and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, "Effective contrast recovery in rapid dynamic near-infrared diffuse optical tomography using L1-norm-based linear image reconstruction method," Journal of Biomedical Optics 17(8), 086009:1-10 (2012).

(18). Deepak Karkala and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, "Data-Resolution based Optimization of the Data-Collection Strategy for Near Infrared Diffuse Optical Tomography," Medical Physics 39(8), 4715-4725 (2012).

(17). Dilip M. Thomas, Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, Deepak Karkala, and Vijay Natarajan, "Mesh simplification based on edge collapsing could improve computational efficiency in near infrared optical tomographic imaging," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (Issue on biophotonics) 18(4),  1493-1501 (2012). [CODE]

(16). Sree Harsha Katamreddy and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, "Model-Resolution Based Regularization Improves Near Infrared Diffuse Optical Tomography," Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics, Imaging Science, and Vision 29(5), 649-656 (2012). [Featured as most downloaded article for October and November months of 2015]

2010

(15). Jaya Prakash, Venkittarayan Chandrasekharan, Vishwajith Upendra, and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, "Accelerating frequency-domain diffuse optical tomographic image reconstruction using graphics processing units," Journal of Biomedical Optics 15(6), 066009 (2010). [CODE]

(14). Ravi P. K. Jagannath and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, “Approximation of Internal Refractive Index Variation Improves Image Guided Diffuse Optical Tomography of Breast,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 57(10), 2560-2563 (2010).

(13). M. S. Singh, Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, R. M. Vasu, and K. Rajan,  “Assessment of ultrasound modulation of near infrared light on the quantification of scattering coefficient,” Medical Physics 37(7), 3744-3751 (2010).

(12). Manuchehr Soleimani, Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, and Hamid Dehghani, “Helmholtz-type regularization method for permittivity reconstruction using experimental phantom data of electrical capacitance tomography,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 59(1), 78-83 (2010).

(11). Saurabh Gupta, Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, Debasish Roy, Daqing Piao, and Ram M. Vasu, “Singular Value Decomposition based computationally efficient algorithm for rapid dynamic near-infrared diffuse optical tomography,” Medical Physics 36(12), 5559-5567 (2009).

(10). Hamid Dehghani, Mathew. E. Eames, Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, Scott C. Davis, Subhadra Srinivasan, Colin M. Carpenter, Brian W. Pogue, and Keith D. Paulsen, “Near Infrared Optical Tomography using NIRFAST: Algorithms for Numerical Model and Image Reconstruction Algorithms,” Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering (Special Issue on Recent Advances in Computational Techniques for Biomedical Imaging) 25(6), 711-732 (2009).

(9). Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, Daniel R. Lynch, Brian W. Pogue, Hamid Dehghani, and Keith D. Paulsen, “Implementation of a computationally efficient least-squares algorithm for highly under-determined three-dimensional diffuse optical tomography problems,” Medical Physics 35(5), 1682-1697 (2008).

(8). Subhadra Srinivasan, Brian W. Pogue, Colin M. Carpenter, Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, and Keith D. Paulsen, “A boundary element approach for image-guided near-infrared absorption and scatter estimation,” Medical Physics 34(11), 4545-4557 (2007).

(7). Mathew. E. Eames, Brian W. Pogue, Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, and Hamid Dehghani, “An efficient Jacobian reduction method for diffuse optical image reconstruction,” Optics Express 15(24), 15908-15919 (2007).

(6). Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, Brian W. Pogue, Hamid Dehghani, Colin M. Carpenter, Shudong Jiang and Keith D. Paulsen, “Structural information within regularization matrices improves near infrared diffuse optical tomography,” Optics Express 15(13), 8043-8058 (2007).

(5). Andrew. L. Darling, Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, Marvin M. Doyley, Hamid Dehghani, and Brian W. Pogue, “Interstitial fluid pressure in soft tissue as a result of externally applied contact pressure,” Physics in Medicine and Biology 52(14), 4121-4136 (2007).

(4). Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, Brian W. Pogue, Hamid Dehghani, and Keith D. Paulsen, “Weight-Matrix Structured Regularization Provides Optimal Generalized Least-Squares Estimate in Diffuse Optical Tomography,” Medical Physics 34(6), 2085-2098 (2007).

(3). Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, Hamid Dehghani, Brian W Pogue, and Keith D Paulsen, "Critical computational aspects of near infrared circular tomographic imaging: Analysis of measurement number, mesh resolution and reconstruction basis," Optics Express 14, 6113-6127 (2006).

(2). Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, Kirtish Karlekar, H S Patel, R M Vasu, Manojit Pramanik, P C Mathias, B Jain and P K Gupta, “Experimental investigation of perturbation Monte-Carlo based derivative estimation for imaging low-scattering tissue," Optics Express 13(3),  985-997 (2005).

(1). Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, and R M Vasu, “Reconstruction of optical properties of low-scattering tissue using derivative estimated through perturbation Monte-Carlo method,” Journal of Biomedical Optics 9(5),  1002-1012 (2004).

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Conference Proceedings
(24). K. Krishnan, K. V. Reddy, B. Ajani, and P. K. Yalavarthy, "Rapid perfusion quantification using Welch-Satterthwaite approximation and analytical spectral filtering," Paper ID: 101330Q, Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging, Orlando, USA, February 11-16, 2017.

(23). K. V. Reddy, A. Mitra, and and P. K. Yalavarthy, "Fast Analytical Spectral Filtering Methods for Magnetic Resonance Perfusion Quantification," Paper ID: WeCT5.17, Proc. of 2016 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Florida, USA, August 16-20, 2016.

(22). J. Prakash, N. Todd, and P. K. Yalavarthy, "Prior Image based Temporally Constrained Reconstruction for Magnetic Resonance guided HIFU," Abstract ID: 3610, ISMRM 24th Annual Meeting, Singapore, 2016.

(21). P. K. Yalavarthy, K. V. Reddy, and J. Lee, "Magnetic Resonance Perfusion Quantification using QR-based Deconvolution," Abstract ID: 2864, ISMRM 24th Annual Meeting, Singapore, 2016.

(20). R. P. K. Jagannath and P. K. Yalavarthy, "Automated Choice of Regularization Parameter for Spatially Variant Regularization in Diffuse Optical Tomography," SPIE/OSA European Conference on Biomedical Optics (ECBO-2013), May 12-16, 2013, Munich, Germany.

(19). Y. N. Swamy and P. K. Yalavarthy, "Estimation of optimal regularization parameter using Morozov discrepancy principle for Diffuse optical Tomography," SPIE/OSA European Conference on Biomedical Optics (ECBO-2013), May 12-16, 2013, Munich, Germany.

(18). J. Prakash, V. Desai, S. Srinivasan, and P. K. Yalavarthy, "Multi-core computers have high scalability than graphics processing units for diffuse optical tomographic image reconstruction," SPIE/OSA European Conference on Biomedical Optics (ECBO-2013), May 12-16, 2013, Munich, Germany.

(17). C. B. Shaw and P. K. Yalavarthy, "Efficient compound regularization ($\ell_1$-TV) based reconstruction method for rapid dynamic diffuse optical tomography," SPIE/OSA European Conference on Biomedical Optics (ECBO-2013), May 12-16, 2013, Munich, Germany.

(16). P. K. Rakshatha, V. Vijaykumar, N. Sinha, and P. K.  Yalavarthy, "Distinguishing cognitive states using iterative classification," Proceeding of the Eighth Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP '12), Article No. 21, 2012.

(15). N. Todd, J. Prakash, H. Odeen, J. de Bever, A. Payne, P. K. Yalavarthy, and D. L. Parker, "Towards real-time availability of 3-D temperature maps created with temporally constrained reconstruction," ISMRM 20th Annual Meeting 2012 [Top-10 Posters of ISMRM]. 
 

(14). R. P. K. Jagannath, P. K. Yalavarthy, "A semi-analytic method for continuous-wave diffuse optical tomography," SPIE/OSA European Conference on Biomedical Optics, May 22-26, 2011, Munich, Germany.

(13). P. K. Yalavarthy, D. A. Low, C. Noel, Z. Wei, D. Yang, A. Apte, J. Bradley, J. Deasy, and I. El Naqa, “Current role of PET in oncology: Potentials and challenges in the management of non-small cell lung cancer,” Proc. of IEEE 42nd Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (26-29 October 2008, Pacific Grove, California) 1067–1071 (2008). [invited paper]

(12). M. Soleimani, C. N. Mitchell, J. R. Tong, H. Dehghani, and P. K. Yalavarthy, “Regularization of electrical impedance tomography imaging using Helmholtz operator,” Proc. of Electrical Impedance Tomography Conference 2008 (EIT 2008, 16-18 June 2008, Hanover, New Hampshire), 163–166 (2008).

(11). M. E. Eames, B. W. Pogue, P. K. Yalavarthy, and H. Dehghani, “An efficient Jacobian reduction method for image reconstruction using Diffuse Optical Tomography,” Biomedical Optics Topical Meeting on CD-ROM (The Optical Society of America, Washington, DC), 16-19 March 2008.

(10). P. K. Yalavarthy, R. Langoju, B. Pogue, H. Dehghani, A. Patil, and K. Paulsen, “Cramer-Rao estimation of error limits for diffuse optical tomography with spatial prior information,” Proc. of SPIE 6434 (BiOS-2007 in Photonics West-2007, 20-25 January 2007, San Jose, California), 643403:1-13 (2007).

(9). S. C. Davis, H. Dehghani, P. K. Yalavarthy, B. W. Pogue, K. D. Paulsen, “Comparing two regularization techniques for diffuse optical tomography,” Proc. of SPIE 6434 (BiOS-2007 in Photonics West-2007, 20-25 January 2007, San Jose, California), 64340X:1-12 (2007).

(8). H. Dehghani, C. M. Carpenter, P. K. Yalavarthy, B. W. Pogue, and J. P. Culver, “Structural a-priori Information in near infrared optical tomography,” Proc. of SPIE 6431 (BiOS-2007 in Photonics West-2007, 20-25 January 2007, San Jose, California), 64310B:1-7 (2007).

(7). A. Darling, P. K. Yalavarthy, H. Dehghani, and B. W. Pogue, “Interstitial fluid pressure due to externally applied force in breast tissue,” Proc. of SPIE 6431 (BiOS-2007 in PhotonicsWest-2007, 20-25 January 2007, San Jose, California), 64310Z:1-10 (2007).

(6). Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, Colin Carpenter, Shudong Jiang, Hamid Dehghani, Brian W. Pogue and Keith D. Paulsen, "Incorporation of MR structural information in diffuse optical tomography using Helmholtz type regularization", Biomedical Optics Topical Meeting on CD-ROM (The Optical Society of America, Washington, DC), March 19-22, 2006.

(5). Colin Carpenter, Brian W. Pogue, Phaneendra Yalavarthy, Scott Davis, Shudong Jiang, Hamid Dehghani and Keith D. Paulsen, "Analysis of 3-dimensional reconstruction in a MR-guided NIR tomography system", Biomedical Optics Topical Meeting on CD-ROM (The Optical Society of America, Washington, DC), March 19-22, 2006.

(4). Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, Hamid Dehghani, Brian W. Pogue, and Keith D. Paulsen, “Measurement optimization for Near-Infrared optical tomography,” Proc. of SPIE 5693 (BiOS-2005 in Photonics West-2005, 22–27 January 2005, San Jose, California), p. 64-73, 2005.

(3). Daqing Piao, Shudong Jiang, Subhadra Srinivasan, Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, Xiaomei Song, Brian W. Pogue, “Spectral-encoding for parallel source implementation in NIR tomography,” Proc. of SPIE 5693 (BiOS-2005 in Photonics West-2005, 22–27 January 2005, San Jose, California), p. 129-136, 2005.

(2). Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, Kirtish Karlekar and R M Vasu, “Perturbation Monte-Carlo based derivative estimation for imaging transport regime tissue optical properties,” Proc. of SPIE 5486, p. 77-84, 2004.

(1). Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy and R M Vasu, “Perturbation Monte-Carlo based derivative estimation for imaging low-scattering inclusions in a heterogeneous tissue,” Proc. IEEE TENCON-2003:Conference on Convergent Technologies for Asia-Pacific Region, p. 529-533, 2003.

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Conference Presentations

(12). P. K. Yalavarthy, Z. Wei, J. Wen, P. Parikh, T. Zhao, J. Bradley, and D. A. Low,  "A spatially-based binning method for improving the quantitative accuracy of free-breathing PET/CT images," Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 72 (ASTRO annual meeting 2008, 21-25 September 2008, Boston, Massachusetts), S613-S614 (2008).

(11). T. Zhao, J. Bradley, C. Noel, P. K. Yalavarthy, P. Parikh, T. Yang, D. Yang, S. Mutic, and D. A. Low, “Application of five-dimensional breathing motion model for monitoring radiation damage,”  Med. Phys. 35 (American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) annual meeting 2008, 27-31 July 2008, Houston, Texas), 2877 (2008).

(10). P. K. Yalavarthy, B. Pogue, and H. Dehghani, “A generalized least-squares minimization method for near infrared diffuse optical tomography,” Department of Defense Era of Hope Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland 25-28 June 2008 (invited presentation).

(9). S. Srinivasan, B. W. Pogue, C. Carpenter, P. K. Yalavarthy, and K. D. Paulsen, “A Boundary Element Approach for Image-guided Near-Infrared Absorption and Scatter Estimation,” Network for Translational Research Optical Imaging Network (NTROI) Retreat, Hyatt Regency Newport Beach, CA, June 28-30, 2007.

(8). B. W. Pogue, C. M. Carpenter, P. K. Yalavarthy, S. C. Davis, J. Wang, and K. D. Paulsen, “Recovery of hemoglobin images from MR-guided NIR spectroscopy,” SPIE Medical Imaging-2007, San Diego, California, 17-22 February 2007.

(7). B. W. Pogue, C. M. Carpenter, P. K. Yalavarthy, H. Dehghani, S. Jiang, X. Wang, W. A. Wells, C. A. Kogel, S. P. Poplack, J. B. Weaver, and K. D. Paulsen, “Proposed methods to improve false positive and false negative rates in MR breast imaging, through combination with NIR broadband spectroscopy/tomography,” BiOS-2007 in Photonics West-2007, San Jose, California, 20-25 January 2007 (invited presentation).

(6). P. K. Yalavarthy, B. W. Pogue, H. Dehghani, S. Jiang, and K. D. Paulsen, “Generalized Least-Squares minimization for Magnetic Resonance guided Diffuse Optical Tomography,” BiOS-2007 in Photonics West-2007, San Jose, California, 20-25 January 2007.

(5). P. K. Yalavarthy, B. W. Pogue, H. Dehghani, S. Jiang, and K. D. Paulsen, “Outline of the Weighted Least-Squares minimization for Diffuse Optical Tomography,” Network for Translational Research Optical Imaging Network (NTROI) Retreat, Hyatt Regency Newport Beach, CA, June 22-24, 2006.

(4). P. K. Yalavarthy, K. Karlekar, and R. M. Vasu, “Design of a time-domain optical tomography imager for imaging tissue with low-scattering coefficient,” Int. Conf. on Laser Applications and Optical Metrology (ICLAOM-03), IIT Delhi, India, Dec. 1-4, 2003.

(3). P. K. Yalavarthy and R. M. Vasu, “Optical inhomogeneity reconstruction in tissue with low scattering inclusions using derivative estimated through perturbation MonteCarlo,” National Symposium on Engg. Optics (NSEO-03), Meerut College, Meerut, India, April-2003.

(2). P. K. Yalavarthy, “Perturbation Monte-Carlo (pMC) Technique: A novel Imaging modality in optical tomography,” Lamp-Workshop, Winter college on bio-photonics, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, February 10-21, 2003.

(1). R. M. Vasu and P. K. Yalavarthy, “Efficient calculation of Jacobian for solving the inverse photon transport problem in the tissue,” Conference on Optics and Photonics in Engineering (COPE-03), New Delhi, India, Jan-2003.

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Technical Reports

(4). Colin Carpenter and Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, “2-D Plotting of Finite Difference or Finite Element Solutions with Tecplot,” NML Lab Report, NML-07-1, Dartmouth College, February 2007.

(3). Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, “Derivation of an alternative form for generalized least-squares update equation in Diffuse Optical Tomography,” NML Lab Report, NML-06-10, Dartmouth College, July 2006.

(2). Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy and Daniel R. Lynch, “Generalized Least-Squares minimization for Diffuse Optical Tomography: Use of Complex data,” NML Lab Report, NML-06-9, Dartmouth College, July 2006.

(1). Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, Phillip R. Perrinez, and Keith D. Paulsen, “Integration formulas for tetrahedral element,” NML Lab Report, NML-06-8, Dartmouth College, May 2006.

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Theses

(3). Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, “A generalized least-squares minimization method for near infrared diffuse optical tomography," Ph.D. Thesis, Dartmouth College, Hanover, September 2007.

(2). Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, “Diffuse optical tomographic reconstruction in low-scattering tissue: development of inversion algorithms based on Monte-Carlo simulation," M.Sc.(Engg.) thesis, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, January 2004.

(1). Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, “Precision measurements of energies and intensities of gamma transitions in the electron capture decay of ⁷⁵Se using large volume HPGe-detector," M.Sc. dissertation, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prasanthi Nilayam, India, March 2001.

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Letters

(1). Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy, “Ultrasound Imaging: a boon or bane?,” Current Science 88(7), p. 1019, April 10, 2005.