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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Through more than 5 years of research, we have developed a new cardiovascular procedure termed quantitative three-dimensional (3D) stress echocardiography (echo). Because of exceedingly high computational demands, the procedure remains clinically nonviable despite our mature academic research. The objective of this STTR project is to remove the computation bott ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Each year million US children are injured affecting the child his her family and society which often bears the cost Among school age children age to injuries lead to million emergency department ED visits and hospital admissions annually resulting in $ billion in medical costs and $ billion more in work loss costs Approxima ...

A NEW HOLOGRAPHIC D CAMERA FOR FUNDUS IMAGING Abstract In the United States retinal disease is the most common cause of visual impairment with age related macular degeneration AMD and diabetic retinopathy DR being the most common retinal diseases For each of the above conditions high resolution and three dimensional D imaging of the retina retinal vasculature choroid and or retinal ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Neonatal and pediatric intensive care still involves performing painful needle punctures to obtain blood samples for routine clinical monitoring Pain management in the neonatal setting is often achieved by long term continuous intravenous infusion of morphine or related compounds It has become increasingly clear however that long term use of opioid compound ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of this project is to develop a commercial software package for rapid Monte Carlo based dose computation in imaging and radiation therapy The product takes advantage of a desktop parallel computer equipped with emerging hardware originally developed gaming and high performance computing The project is motivated by the fact that the market is ripe for ...

Project Summary Abstract Seasonal influenza has an annual global incidence of up to in adults and up to in children About to million infections result in severe disease while somewhere between a quarter and a half million cases are fatal Antiviral drugs can lessen the severity and reduce mortality when administered within h of onset of symptoms Hence sensitive and specific poin ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Problem Lower gastrointestinal bleeding is a significant medical problem in the United States accounting for more than hospital admissions and tens of billions of dollars of healthcare spending annually It is common for bleeding from a single site to stop and restart multiple times The three modalities now used to diagnose and locate gastrointestina ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This proposal is in response to PA the parent announcement for STTR R grant applications Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation has become a preferred treatment for hematological malignancies and certain genetic disorders The use of umbilical cord blood cells as a source of hematopoietic stem cells for bone marrow transplantation has increased st ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Neurotargeting, LLC proposes to develop the technical support infrastructure as well as clinical tools for a commercial software product that will provide a global service for the medical community involved in deep brain stimulator (DBS) therapy. Specifically, this Phase I study will explore the use of a physiological atlas database that can interface with a nu ...

PROJECT SUMMARY The overall goal of the proposed research and technology transfer effort is to develop a low cost point of care mobile device based technology for automated identification of Stillandapos s murmur the most common innocent benign and harmless heart murmur of childhood This novel technology could reduce the current rate of over a million children unnecessarily referred to pedia ...