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his project involves the commercialization of the breast phantom designed by NIST and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) for quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The breast phantom consists of two independent phantoms, one focused on diffusion MRI measurements and the other focused on accurate measurements of fat and fibroglandular tissue properties. The proposed phantom is o ...

ABSTRACT: Autonomous vehicles lack a standardized mechanism for seamless cross-platform sharing of testing frameworks and evaluations of basic tasks. The ability to execute common tests on various hardware platforms is essential in order to be able to e

One of the Biggest sources of Data is Public Data. Its data about us, for us, and paid by us. And all this public data is mined and utilized by disparate concerns, both public and private, to gain actionable insight. And with Open Data gaining traction in the US at all levels of government, a lot of this data is now becoming available at a much larger scale in machine-readable format. This proje ...

To date, there is no known standardized method of determining the origin of fabrication of an IC chip. The problem lies in the numerous parameters that can be used to identify the origin. To resolve this and meet its need, Xallent LLC proposes developing a database of unique device parameters and characteristics that can be used to successfully track the origin of fabrication of an electronic comp ...

In this program, we will develop and prototype a new Super-Resolution Magnetic Field Microscopy (SRMFM) system that employs nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond nanostructures to image magnetic fields with a sensitivity below 100nT/sqrt(Hz) and a spatial resolution better than 20 nm. The system consists of two primary components: (1) hardware and software for NV electron spin-based imaging and ...

Recent studies have shown that embedded systems are extremely vulnerable to security attacks. Some published exploits include remote hijacking of the electronic systems in a modern car and using IP phones and smart televisions to perform covert surveillance of their owners. In this project, we are building a system that removes known vulnerabilities from embedded software and adds protections to p ...

Development of a low-cost, near term approach to flight testing a hypersonic, storable fuel, scramjet engine using ballistic range technology is proposed. Flight-testing is easily the most expensive component of the triad of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), ground-testing and flight-testing needed to develop and demonstrate sustained and accelerating airbreathing flight at hypersonic speeds. ...

There is a critical need for an all weather capability to detect and classify military targets concealed in foliage and/or camouflage. Recent advances in high resolutions synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology, operating at low frequencies (VHF-UHF), have demonstrated significant capability for detection and classification of such targets. However, one of the primary difficulties is the signi ...

A novel architecture employing optimized space-time-frequency processing to meet the seemingly disparate requirements imposed by FOPEN SAR and MTI is presented. Two primary techniques are discussed: (a) simultaneous, long-dwell multibeam receive processing and (b) wideband, udorandomly hopped frequency employ multiple, wideband antenna elements each wi ...

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