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Iron deficiency is one of the most common nutritional deficiencies in the United States. Left untreated, iron stores continue to deplete, resulting in iron deficiency anemia (IDA). Women undergoing basic military training are particularly susceptible to reduced and depleted iron stores. To-date, there are no point-of-care (POC) instruments for comprehensive, accurate determination of iron status. ...

Few-MeV linac-based X-ray machines are widely used for radiotherapy, cargo inspection, and industrial radiography. These machines are large, weighing several tons. Several years ago truck mounted systems extended the reach of this technology into field applications like bridge inspection. Recently man-portable systems were introduced, which typically are comprised of three modules that can be inde ...

Complete human anatomy avatars have a broad future role in advanced training environments, providing, for example, medically correct immersive experiences, performance-related physiological modeling studies, and in simulations for the purpose of designing protective armor. USARIEM have created individualized avatars as 3-D tetrahedral Finite Element (FE) meshes with full labeled anatomy, fitted to ...

Innovision LLC proposes an innovative and robust solution to this topic, a software toolDACAA (Dynamic avatars with Complete Articulated Anatomy) that can be used to quickly reposition USARIEMs avatars to the desired postures and apply natural motions to them. A template skeleton model with well-defined joints will be constructed and fitted to each individualized avatar. Methods and algorithms wi ...

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CRG proposes to develop a wearable health monitoring system that leverages multi-modal, distributive sensing through an array of miniature, ultra-low power sensors to realize high accuracy while mitigating bulk and discomfort. The proposed approach facilitates integration of electronics into a compression garment enabling remote health monitoring of physiological data, generating actionable infor ...

Major advances in prosthetic devices and aggressive rehabilitation over recent years have enabled many warfighters experiencing amputation to regain functional mobility, and often return to full active duty. A critical step to ensuring that these prosthetic devices function seamlessly with the patient is the initial alignment process. This alignment process is often iterative and time consuming, a ...

The objective of this project is to demonstrate the feasibility of a self-aligning prosthesis adapter for both static and dynamic aligning. Phase I research is focused on a product compatible with existing trans-tibial prostheses but the concept can be extended to other types. Currently, static alignment is performed with translation and rotation adapters. Dynamic alignment is more challenging be ...

Recent advances in augmented reality (AR) offer valuable opportunities for simulationbased training outside of a medical simulator facility. The potential benefits for combat casualty care training are particularly powerful, as over 100,000 U.S. military medical personnel must be prepared to quickly respond to a broad range of injuries at any point in time. We propose to develop and evaluate a hig ...

CHI Systems, in partnership with the Virginia Serious Games Institute, proposes to design, develop, and assess the Interactive Mixed Media augmented Reality Simulation Engine (IMMERSE) technology, a compelling and instructionally rich training experience using augmented and mixed-reality for TC3 trainees, and then evaluate the impact of the IMMERSE approach on trainee understanding and training ef ...