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Diode-laser arrays operating in the visible region of the spectrum offer advantages for illuminator applications, particularly for night and water penetration capability. Recent developments in diode-laser materials allow operation throughout the visiblespectrum. At this time, red diode-laser technology is more mature than the existing blue-green or violet diode-laser technology. The novel aspe ...

DESCRIPTION (Unedited Applicant's Abstract):When people with diabetes reach end-stage renal disease they must undergo either dialysis or transplantation. About 200,000 Americans need artificial kidney machines to stay alive. These machines rely on sterile dialysis membranes to remove toxic materials from the bloodstream. More than 30 different polymers or polymer blen ...

DESCRIPTION (Verbatim from the Applicant's Abstract): This Phase I SBIR application seeks support to develop and evaluate a naturally-occurring extracellular matrix (ECM) bioscaffold material for tissue engineering applications; specifically, the repair and/or restoration of congenital defects in which lost or missing tissue is the limiting factor for s ...

DESCRIPTION: (provided by applicant) The goal of this program is to develop accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) as an analytical tool for cancer research, specifically for tracing the interactions of carcinogens and cancer chemotherapeutic drugs with their biomolecular targets. AMS is a highly selective means for d ...

This project will enhance the competitiveness of the U.S. aquaculture industry by providing a cost- effective means of increasing the rate of genetic improvement of hybrid striped bass. We will compare the reproductive, hatchery and grow-out performance of selectively bred hybrid striped bass and backcross hybrid striped bass of common genetic origin. We will also benchmark our findings via compar ...

The innovation is a compact, UAV compatible, high-definition hyperspectral imaging system. The system concurrently-acquires a hyperspectral image using a compact grating imaging spectrometer and a much-higher spatial resolution color photographic image using a portable, measurement-grade, high-definition CCD camera (2,000 x 1,312 pixel). The spectral resolution of the hyperspectral image is better ...

For SAR, spatial and temporal adaptive processing (STAP) uses samples local to the cell being processed to estimate local clutter and noise statistics. If these samples are corrupted by returns from other unknown targets, the statistics are invalid and theperformance of the algorithms can be degraded. We propose to conduct a range of experiments to evaluate signal detection, statistical, multi-loo ...

A critically important region of the electromagnetic spectrum is the hard X-ray/soft gamma-ray band from 10 KeV to a few MeVs. In this band, a wealth of astrophysical processes occur in an even greater diversity of astrophysical objects and phenomena, both on a compact and diffuse scale. Surprisingly, for such a pivotal region of the spectrum, the high energy sky is still quite unexplored in that ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): An ideal permanent ventricular assist system (VAS) or total artificial heart (TAH) will not include tubes or wires passing through the skin. This proposal describes development of a telemetry system capable of providing the bi-directional communications between implanted and external components required for safe operation. ...

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