Award Data

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this project is to investigate the technical feasibility and commercial potential of a platform (PhenoNet) for custom phenotypic data repositories that encourages adoption of phenotypic data standards and e

Field inspection of printed circuit boards (PCB), and assessment of their condition is critical for the readiness of military equipment. A new technology is needed that is portable and able to inspect PCBs, yet can perform sophisticated characterization of defects, and predict the remaining life of the electronics. The technology proposed by RMD could revolutionize the nondestructive evaluation ...

75530-Positron emission tomography (PET) is a powerful imaging tool that can provide diagnosis for symptoms of diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer's disease, head trauma and stroke. However, the performance of current clinical PET systems is limited by available detector technology, and there is an urgent need for improvement in PET instrumentation, in order to exploit the full potential of this p ...

75096-Despite excellent scintillator properties and its use in a wide variety of applications, CsI(Tl) has not been used for radionuclide imaging in medical applications. The primary reason is the presence of a strong afterglow component in its scintillation decay, which reduces the energy resolution. Another reason is the absence of thick, pixelated scintillator structures, which are needed to ...

75170-X-ray detectors with high energy resolution, high sensitivity, and high count-rate performance are required in electron beam systems for materials science research. In many X-ray detection studies conducted with electron beam systems, system performance is limited by the characteristics of available X-ray detectors. This project will develop novel low-capacitance, high-purity silicon detec ...

75438-With the ever-increasing number of human diseases being modeled in small animals such as mice and rats, the high resolution radionuclide imaging (such as SPECT, single photon emission computed tomography) of these small animals is required. Clinical SPECT scanners used for human imaging are bulky, expensive, and do not have adequate spatial resolution for small animal studies. Dedicated, l ...

76325-Gamma ray spectrometers are an important tool in the characterization of radioactive waste, such as found at many DOE sites. These gamma ray spectrometers require good energy resolution, high detection efficiency, compact size, light weight, portability, and low power requirements. No available spectrometer satisfies all these requirements. This project will investigate a new scintillator ...

75745-Neutron beam facilities, used for materials research studies, require high neutron fluxes, but their utilization is often limited by detection systems that use scintillators. None of these scintillators exhibit good neutron detection and energy resolution, fast response, and high light yield at the same time. The widely used 6LiF/ZnS:Ag phosphor, although very bright, is slow and opaque to ...

The pervasiveness of nanoparticles and nanomaterials is rapidly expanding, and determination of their chemical composition can be achieved by Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) excited through an optical fiber of nanometer dimensions. We propose to develop a LIBS system for nanomaterials based upon recently demonstrated nanometer silica wires [Nature, Dec 2003] for excitation and an ultr ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The focus of the application is in the area of breast cancer imaging and tumor characterization. Imaging in pre-clinical models with injected contrast agents and imaging the oxygen concentration within tissue a