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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In this Phase II STTR project, the investigators plan to extend their successful Phase I feasibility demonstration to the development and manufacture of an RF body coil plus phased array receive system for use in high field clinical and research MRI systems. In Phase I, the feasibility of a large homogeneous transmit coil based on the TEM design was proven, pub ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant):The growing number of women receiving drug treatment for osteoporosis underscores the need for sensitive methods to monitor therapy. Because it permits selective assessment of the trabecular and cortical bone, which may respond differently to disease and therapy, quantitative computed tomography (QCT) is well-suited to this purpose. However, the ability of QCT t ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant):The growing number of women receiving drug treatment for osteoporosis underscores the need for sensitive methods to monitor therapy. Because it permits selective assessment of the trabecular and cortical bone, which may respond differently to disease and therapy, quantitative computed tomography (QCT) is well-suited to this purpose. However, the ability of QCT t ...

Here we propose to develop and integrate both a novel Active/Passive Sonar System and a Mitigation Management and Control Module. Together these will comprise a complete Integrated Marine Mammal Monitoring and Protection System (IMAPS). The active sonarsystem will consist of a vertical line array for the source and a 60 channel cylindrical array for the receiver. The passive system will use the ...

Mission Statement: "To develop and deploy a Pocketable Language Translation System (PLTS) that identifies and translates keywords as they are spoken even though significant background noise and/or degradation of the audio signal may be present. Thesystem shall support bi-directional identification and translation of multiple languages. Conversations of interest shall be automatically recorded, ...

Dramatic differences in the diffusivities of the constituents of novel thin film materials and structures limit material perfection under far from equilibrium growth conditions. We will develop a new light-mass ion source, compatible with the low pressurerequirements of molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), to provide selective enhancement of the motion of surface atoms. Helium or hydrogen ions incident ...

DESCRIPTION: Plants produce a wide variety of valuable bioactive metabolites, but these are commonly present in low concentrations in the wild-type plant. This makes the separation and purification of these compounds complicated and expensive. The applicant company, Naprogenix Inc, has developed a technology for increasing the yields of specific bioactive metabolites in mutant plant cell cultures ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Obesity is recognized as a national and global epidemic, as approximately 65% of adults in the United States are classified as overweight or obese as defined by body mass index (BMI). In fact, in the year 2000, the human race reached a historical landmark, when for the first time in history the number of adults with excess weight surpassed the number of those w ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project proposes to develop and evaluate a hand rehabilitation system for chronic hemiparetic stroke survivors that have lost their ability to full control their hand. Stroke is the leading cause of adult disability, and is the third leading cause of death in the United States. Stroke survivors often face a significant loss of functional motor control in ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The aim of this proposal is to evaluate BIO 300 as an effective therapy to prevent and/or mitigate the erectile dysfunction (ED) that is commonly observed following radiotherapy (RT) for prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men in the United States. Approximately half of prostate cancer patients will undergo RT as a part of thei ...