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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Traumatic brain injury TBI is an acquired neurological disorder that can cause long lasting disability with limited treatment options Therefore preventative strategies must be emphasized in high risk activities to reduce the individual and societal burden of this pervasive injury Bicycle activities account for of all sports related TBI with ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Cancer is the second leading cause of death after heart disease in the US Chemotherapy is a mainstay of treatment after surgical removal of tumors but the balance of clinical benefit versus disabling or life threatening side effects is often uncertain Genotyping of cancers to identify mutated oncogenes has enabled an era of targeted therapy Drugs targeting ...

Improved cameras and unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) have led to an explosion in the amount of airborne imagery and video collected by Air Force assets, but there are not enough trained personnel to analyze this imagery in real time. Thus, targets of opportunity and threats go undetected until the chance to act on them has passed. Automatic target detection could alleviate the burden on analysts and ...

Project Summary Exercise-based interventions have been recently shown to have great potential for preserving and restoring cognitive function in older adults. In this context, Tai Chi has gained the interest of researchers and clinicians because it incorporates physical, cognitive, social, and meditative components within the same activity. Such multimodal exercise modality is expected to have a p ...

With a Phase I/II STTR grant award from NIA, BioSensics in collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) successfully developed and commercialized an advanced physical activity monitoring system (PAMSys™) for older adults. PAMSys enables continuous remote monitoring of physical activity, fall risk, and fall incidents. The fall detection technology of PAMSys has become the gold standard in ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant APDM is a young company focused on developing and commercializing professional systems using wearable inertial sensors for monitoring of human movement and movement disorders In Phase I we developed the novel Instrumented Stand and Walk test ISAW using APDMandapos s proprietary Opal movement monitors and Mobility Lab system We validated the ISAW by demon ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) and the Surgical Navigation and Robotics Laboratory (SNR) at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) propose to develop and test a Smart Template to guide transperineal targeted prostate biopsiesand subsequent therapy under magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The project aims to solve the problem of poor diagnostic yield in prostate b ...

Abstract Despite significant effortsno cure exists for the major respiratory diseases such as asthmaemphysema and pulmonary fibrosis due to a lack of proper preclinical methodsDrug development is often carried out in cultured cellsWhile amenable to imaging and manipulationthis approach lacks the native tissue environment and neglects the effects of mechanical forces due to breathing which influenc ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project proposes to build an integrated software-based system for enhancing the accuracy of tumor change detection. The intent of the system, called AutoRegister, which is to be deployed on a clinical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner platform, is to automate the alignment of a patient's brain scan with that of a prior scan, such that subseque ...

Effective Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) training methods have been underutilized within ground-based training operations. More specifically, Battlefield Airmen training has not adopted the recent advances in blended reality (BR) technologies into their training due to specialized training requirements. To address this issue, the Aptima team plans to continue develop on a training system kn ...