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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project will develop a digital wireless transceiver integrated circuit (IC) and antenna for a companion microphone system that can be packaged in an in-the-ear (ITE) hearing aid. The use of companion microphones has been shown to improve perception of a companion's speech in noise filled environments such as restaurants, entertainment events, and urban are ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In this phase I STTR, Advanced Medical Electronics Corp. and the JHU Lions Vision Center are teaming up to create a hardware toolkit that will allow personal computers to be used as accurately calibrated and controlled vision test instruments. This toolkit is predicated on the fact that modern PCs and displays (either CRT-based or flat screen) have sufficient c ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposed project seeks to prove the feasibility of an ultra-low power, digital wireless transceiver integrate circuit (1C) which would enable communication between two hearing aids. Wireless synchronization between the digital signal processors of two hearing instruments is a new technology for next generation hearing instruments. Approximately 70% of fitt ...

We propose to develop a computer based system for the online analysis of bio-behavioral signals associated with momentary loss of alertness. We will continue our development of bio-behavioral measures indicative of lapses in alertness. Our system will use only measures that can be obtained without attaching sensors to the operator. We will concentrate on monitoring the oculomotor system using came ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is a lethal brain tumor that typically causes death within two years after initial diagnosis. GBM accounts for 25% of all primary brain tumors in adults. Despite improvements in precise surgical de-bulking, radiation, and drug therapy, the prognosis for GBM patients has not significantly changed in decades. Novel therapies are ther ...

Friction Stir Processing (FSP) is an emerging technology that can be used to pre or post-process a range of materials, including aluminum, to locally modify material properties. It is known that FSP can be used to enhance material properties for improved superplastic forming (SPF) behavior of aluminum. This can potentially allow for dramatic cost reductions of SPF and aluminum fabrications, all ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this Phase I STTR proposal is to seamlessly integrate MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)- derived perfusion measurements into the radiation treatment (RT) planning systems for brain tumor patients. Currently the MRI and CT (computed tomography) information that is used to define the RT target volumes is based on information about brain anatomy, and no ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this project is to develop functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) tools for assessing and treating human patients with a brain neoplasm or other focal pathology involving the visual system, especially visual cortex. Such patients can face difficult decisions balancing aggressive, invasive treatment of the pathology with side- effects involvin ...

The US Navy is interested in analytical methods and tools to predict ship bubbly wake acoustic signatures for waterjet propelled surface ships with underwater waterjet outlet such as the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). Wake features of propeller-driven ships are well studied, but the ability to perform predictive analysis and wakes from waterjet driven advanced hull forms do not currently exist. The m ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Highly multiplexed detection of biological molecules and their activities has been an essential element of modern molecular diagnosis, drug development and research in genomics and proteomics. Well established DNA array methodologies exist which permit highly multiplexed detection of transcripts. Similar methodologies for detecting or measuring activities of pr ...