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DHP is seeking new image compression technologies that will retain diagnostic quality and reduce the burden of digital medical image transmission on the militarys tactical networks.ATA is proposing to tailor the latest state-of-the-art commercial image compression algorithm, the Main Still Picture Profile of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard, for medical imagery.HEVC has been shown ...

A lack of extreme angular metrology accuracy better than 50 nrad is limiting progress in molecular characterization by x-ray diffraction for important industrial fields such as material science and biotechnology. If we want to advance these fields, a high-accuracy angle generator for characterizing the metrology device across its entire measuring range must be a part of the national metrology tool ...

Omega Optics will develop a fiber-coupled platform in strained silicon-on-sapphire (SoS) for tunable difference frequency generation in midwave infrared (MIR) with tunable continuous wave sources in the near-infrared (NIR). Stress exerted by silicon nitride on underlying silicon induces second-order nonlinear susceptibility. NIR light is coupled into silicon and MWIR light is coupled out of silico ...

Between Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation New Dawn, the total number of U.S. Casualties (those Wounded in Action) has exceeded 52,000 as of January 30, 2015. These numbers point to the fact that active warfighters in the battlefield are almost constantly exposed to the threat of external penetrating wounds. The goal of combat wound care is to protect open wounds u ...

Urban Mining Company has invented and patented a Magnet to Magnet recycling Process that allows us to take low grade NdFeB magnet scrap, reduce it to a powder, then recycle it into high performance magnets capable of functioning in the most stringent civilian and military applications.Our process is environmentally friendly; as it does not involve large scale melting smelting nor toxic chemicals a ...

Military medical personnel require point of care medical diagnostics capable of real time lab quality results to improve the far forward care of wounded warfighters.Diagnostics currently employed rely on antibody-affinity chromatography and other related technologies which have the net result of imposing special storage conditions on the device or its components, conditions such as refrigeration.T ...

A robust system level design process will be used to identify the design of transparent tapered resistive (TTR) elements, including the materials, fabrication processes, and lifecycle costs. The transparent tapered resistive film will be designed to provides a tapered resistive layer across the film while remaining transparent in the visual and near-infrared optical bands for use in radio-frequenc ...

The objective of this Phase I proposal is to develop, design, and prototype a computer-based, Automated Vision Tester (AVT) for comprehensive vision screening of military aircrew. A fully realized AVT would combine a variety of clinical screening tests into a unified, automated tabletop unit capable of conducting screenings at both near (14 in./35 cm) and far (20 ft/6 m) distances. The ideal test ...

Traumatic upper limb musculoskeletal injuries and neurodegenerative conditions such as stroke routinely afflict our Warfighters, veterans and citizens and lead to significant loss of upper limb function.Assistive and rehabilitation orthotic devices (ARO

About 40% of trauma-related deaths are associated with rapid onset of coagulopathy. The vast majority of trauma patients are coagulopathic at the time of death. In Phase I, Lynntech demonstrated strong proof-of-concept for developing a novel, easy-to-use and cost effective device for quantitative real-time detection of a biomarker of coagulopathy, using human unprocessed whole blood as the input s ...