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THE LONG-RANGE GOAL OF THIS PROGRAM IS THE DEVELOPMENT AND COMMERCIALIZATION OF PROTON ACCELERATORS SUITABLE FOR RADIATION THERAPY OF CANCER IN HOSPITAL OR CLINICAL SETTINGS. FOR THIS PURPOSE THE ACCELERATOR SHOULD HAVE AN ENERGY UP TO 250 MEV, AND MUST BE SIMPLE, RELIABLE, AND INEXPENSIVE COMPARED TO EXISTING ACCELERATORS FOR PHYSICS APPLICATIONS. IN ADDITION, WITH SUFFICIENT INNOVATION, IT COULD ...

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Not Available As aircraft become more sophisticated and the concerns for safety increase, researchers and engineers increasingly rely on aircraft modeling and simulation to perform detailed and analysis prior to and during a flight test program. The key to the fidelity of any simulation is the quality of the underlying aerodynamic database, and while it is relatively straightforward to collect th ...

THE LONG TERM OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS THE DEVELOPMENT AND MARKETING OF EASILY SWALLOWED ELECTRODES FOR TEMPORARY TRANSESOPHAGEAL CARDIAC PACING. THIS "PILL ELECTRODE" CAN REPLACE CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION IN A VARIETY OF DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS, INCLUDING INITIATION AND/OR TERMINATION OF TACHYCARDIAS, SHORT TERM MAINTENANCE OF ADEQUATE RATE IN SINUS BRADYCARDIA, ACCELERATION OF ...

Not Available Nanofibers have found a market in filter applications because of their high surface area and ability to effect a large pressure drop over a small thickness. Although their use in filter applications is known, methods to produce large quantities of nanofiber sheets are kept as trade secrets, limiting the progression of this technology into other application areas of interest to the A ...

Not Available With the increasing consumer demand for mobile/portable systems, low power VLSI has gained great importance. A number of circuit level power reduction schemes, including supply/threshold voltage scaling, multiple threshold schemes and selective clocking are available. However, greater power reduction can be achieved only if the problem is approached from a global perspective. This i ...

Not Available Systran Federal Corp. (SFC) has developed a concept for a lightweight, hand-held tool (PALM-IT) for performing flight-line diagnostics and maintenance operations. The heart of the system is a five-function PC Card (formerly called PCMCIA) supporting the following interfaces: Mil-Std-1553, IEEE-488, 10Base-T Ethernet, and Fortezza-encrypted wireless networking. The first two interfac ...

Not Available A new approach to significantly increasing the level of monolithic integration of InP based photonic integrated circuits for RF applications is the subject of this proposed Phase I program. The method is based on a vertically coupled twin wave guide design that has already been successfully used to fabricate lasers and amplifiers. The fabrication process requires no epitaxial re-g ...

Not Available While electronic communications have streamlined some knowledge work, they have also added to it by generating more to read. The DOCKET projects will develop a focused email information extraction and monitoring tool that will serve 4 functions: 1. Provide information management tools that extract and visualize entities such as people, places and things, and their relationships to ...