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Tuberculosis (TB) is a re-emerging infectious disease threat worldwide. To protect the health of US military personnel, TB screen is required for military personnel at the time of service entrance. However, current TB screening methods TST and IGRA used in military population have their drawbacks in application such as high false positives and being heavily lab dependent. Here ADA Technologies, ...

Aspen Systems Inc. proposes a novel personal cooling system that uses a vapor compression chiller to circulate cooled water through flow channels in a wearable vest to facilitate improved cooling of personnel in high-temperature environments. The system is designed to cycle coolant delivered to various zones within the vest enabling the body surface to vasodilate in between chilled liquid flow. ...

With the continued improvements in body armor, and the disturbing increase in explosive offensives in modern combat, more of our wounded soldiers are surviving their injuries and there has been a considerable increase in the military amputee population. Improvements in the prosthetic limb dynamics have outpaced improvements to the fit and comfort of the devices, and so several concerns remain as ...

In this phase I SBIR project, BioSensics will partner with Ranchos Los Amigos Rehabilitation Center to develop, implement and evaluate a novel technology to monitor metabolic demands of energy expenditure during Activity of Daily Living (ADL) in amputees. The proposed technology is based on objective evaluation of the required locomotion and movement of prosthetic foot that will be obtained from t ...

Hstar proposes a real-time wearable amputee rehabilitation monitor (WARM) system. It will enhance amputee rehabilitation process with metabolic cost monitoring, gait analysis, and comfort analysis. It will support users Activities of Daily Living (ADL) and provide physicians, physical therapists and prosthetists important information of lower limb amputees to achieve successful rehabilitation proc ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI), in collaboration with the Center for Regenerative Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), proposes to investigate a multimodal optical imaging and spectroscopy approach for in vitro characterization of engineered tissue constructs. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging will be used for gross assessment of tissue morphology and birefringence properti ...

The objective of this proposal is to produce an apparatus to automatically measure the corneal and scleral surface to facilitate the manufacture of ocular surface prosthetics with a lens diameter up to 24 millimeters. Prior art attempts to measure surface topology, especially in the bearing region of these large diameter lenses, have failed due to the steep curvature of the sclera. An apparatus ...

The use of a Prosthetic Replacement of the Ocular Surface Environment (PROSE) device is a revolutionary treatment for military patients that have lost their eyelids due to 3rd degree facial burns or for civilians who suffer from a host of corneal diseases. However, custom manual fitting is often a protracted painful, inexact process that require multiple fitting sessions. Training for new practio ...

Tinnitus, along with hearing loss, are the two top service-related disabilities for veterans. It has been estimated that together the cost to the Veterans Administration is $1.5B annually. While hearing loss can readily be quantified, measures of tinnitus have remained highly subjective making quantitive assessments of occurrence and severity difficult. This project seeks to develop a quantitat ...

Post-deployment psychological health issues such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), substance abuse, and comorbid stress and anger management disorders are experienced by substantial numbers of our past and returning Veterans. Fortunately, a number of proven, evidence-based treatments have been developed to help Veterans with these issues. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is one such treat ...