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"Active Signal Technologies proposes to develop an active noise reduction (ANR) stethoscope that will enable detection and discrimination of heart and breathing sounds in the high noise environment of a UH-60 BlackHawk helicopter. We will enhance ourdirect contact sensor technology, which already provides state-of-the-art physiological signal detection and passive noise rejection, to better match ...

"The U.S. military's Environmental Control Units (ECUs) predominantly operate with halogen-containing refrigerants (CFCs or HCFCs). Since many of these units are nearing the end of their useful lives, an opportunity exits to develop more efficient, costeffective, and easily supportable systems that use natural refrigerants such as CO2. While CO2 systems possess advantages over conventional syste ...

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"The technical goal of the project is to deliver a hands-free, two-way communication system which provides speech intelligibility of 92% on the Modified Rhyme Test in extreme high noise environments (115-125dBA). The objective is achieved by delivering abattery powered transceiver which provides communication through the dental bone conduction pathways of speech and hearing. This pathway is signif ...

"By 2006, all television programs in the US will be broadcasted in the new Digital Television (DTV) standard format. Digital video signals of typical sizes (SDTV 480p/i: 704x480, progressive/interlaced, 60fps; HDTV 720p: 1280x720, progressive, 60fps; HDTV1080i: 1920x1080, interlaced, 30fps) represent a staggering raw data rates. Even with compression, the bit rate range is still overwhelming (3-19 ...

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"The amount and diversity of data required for meaningful evaluation of automatic target recognition (ATR) systems under extended operating conditions makes data collection efforts prohibitively expensive and time consuming. Generating novel views oftargets from a video segment, or several still images acquired from different viewpoints, will significantly reduce the data collection complexity in ...

"This Phase II proposal describes the development of a comprehensive, fieldable computer-based simulation for training in central lines placement (CVC). The system will include refined hardware, underlying software, and educational content created to meetneeds defined by clinical faculty. Structured evaluation will help guide and validate system development and validation.Proposed technical advanc ...

"Immersion Medical aims to establish the feasibility of a medical training simulator for needle thoracentesis. The proposed project involves several technical advances to Immersion's pre-existing simulator for needlestick procedures. We propose a hapticcomputer touchpad as an innovative solution to three tactile techniques used in thoracentesis: palpation of anatomical landmarks, percussion, and f ...