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In recent military engagements, thoracic injuries occurred in nearly 10% of wounded US personnel and are a primary or contributing factor in up to 75% of all civilian trauma-related deaths. Hemothorax, an accumulation of blood in the pleural space, is a common, life threatening result of chest trauma. The primary treatment of hemothorax is tube thoracostomy. While the majority of traumatic hemotho ...

The vast majority of casualties who die in combat do so before they reach a definitive care facility highlighting the role of the combat medic. The recent change of policy, lifting the ban on women serving in combat arms makes it likely that the number of females serving in combat roles will increase in the future. Data from recent conflicts has shown that female casualties have suffered a greater ...

This Phase II SBIR effort will develop a LPI/LPD waveform and hardware system to transmit large data files efficiently and securely over great distances using RF signals that do not require the support of infrastructure such as cellular towers or satellites. Analysis of waveform and communication techniques will be summarized in a trade-off study and a selected waveform/communications technique wi ...

Enterprises across industry sectors face a common challengehow can they track, analyze and interact with employees, assets and customers based on their movement and physical location Existing solutions, GPS and Wifi, are expensive, battery intensive and insufficiently accurate indoors. Current location tracking services often fail to initiate appropriate actions based on location. Enterprises requ ...

We are prototyping a helmet-integrated system for personal hostile fire detection (HFD). The system detects small arms fire and geo-locates the shooter(s). This project to develop a Mark 1 prototype is conceived as the first of three efforts to create a mature system that meets the sponsors objective specifications.

Hyperkalemia will clearly continue to be a concern in the treatment of combat casualties. The risk of death from hyperkalemia-induced cardiac arrhythmias is significant in the absence of renal replacement therapy (RRT).Rapid evacuation out of Iraq and Afghanistan ensured that most hyperkalemia occurred further up the evacuation chain, thereby limiting the need for non-RRT hyperkalemia treatment op ...

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 goal of this Phase I project is to develop an affordable, accurate, and rapid absolute interferometric length measurement technique with improved repeatability and accuracy. API has a patent-pending technology, Frequency-Modulated Time-to-Frequency Mapping Interferometer (FM-TFMI), that is an absolute interferometer capable of measuring at high speed and with exceptionally high accuracy. The T ...

New shape-engineered iron-based microscopic contrast agents (MCAs) for magnetic resonance imaging promise to increase diagnostic accuracy while reducing side effects, and enhance scientists’ ability to track stem cells. Currently, techniques used for making multispectral microscale contrast agent particles are cost prohibitive. In Phase I, an innovative technique (employing template-guided elect ...

The objective of this Phase II project is to research, develop, and commercialize a resonant scan lens (RSL) for use in a resonant light detection and ranging (R-LIDAR) distance sensor. R-LIDAR uses a resonant optomechanical system to generate a beam scan. While resonant optomechanical systems produce high-speed and large field-of-view (FOV) scans from a miniature form factor, the beam scans lack ...