Facilities

Our lab is equipped with the following instrumentation:

  • Ultrasound transducers, hydrophones, pulser-receivers, PVDF receivers
  • Arbitrary waveform generator, digital and mixed signal oscilloscopes, pre-amplifiers, stepped attenuators, power amplifier, acoustic absorbers
  • Calibrated tissue-mimicking phantom
  • Phantom fabrication facility with vacuum oven
  • Wet lab equipment
  • Programmable research ultrasonic system
  • Impedance-based particle size analyzer
  • High-end workstations with GPU

We have access to the following shared facilities at IIT Gandhinagar:

  • Central Instrumentation Facility
  • Tinkerers Lab with a 3D printer and laser cutting machine
  • Machine shop with computer-aided milling machine, CNCs, rapid prototyping machine, etc.
  • Electronics workbench (Electrical Engineering teaching lab)
  • Mammalian and microbiology cell culture facilities
  • Mechanical testing facility with a dynamic mechanical analyzer
  • Particle size analysis and biocolloidal fabrication and characterization
  • High performance computing facility

Ultrasound transducers (1 – 20 MHz) and a PVDF hydrophone

 

Calibrated tissue-mimicking ultrasound phantom