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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Magnetic Resonance Imaging MRI has emerged in the past decade as an important tool for the detection diagnosis and management of breast cancer However the availability and reliability of MRI guided interventional procedures have lagged behind Currently ultrasound US image guided breast biopsy is favored by many clinicians for MRI detected lesions as i ...

Conformal sensor windows have the capability of increasing the performance of an optical system while decreasing the aerodynamic drag. In many cases, these windows might conform to the platform they reside in. They may also be made out of optical materials that are resistant to the elements, thus providing a degree of protection for the optical sensors that are behind them. Continued improvements ...

Aerodynamically shapes missile domes have many benefits over traditional spherically shaped domes. To correct for optical aberrations presented by this non-traditional shape, free form corrective optics are required between the dome and the image sensor. For this example, the corrective optics shape may be in the form of an arch. Currently the design and utilization of corrective arch shapes are c ...

HYPRES, in collaboration with University of California, Berkeley, proposes to transition superconducting parametric amplifier technology into a robust line of products. In Phase I, we designed a compact package for lumped-element Josephson parametric amplifiers (LJPA) fabricated by our collaborators at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. We have also established the feasibility of digitization of the amplifie ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project involves advancements in the state-of-the-art in biomedical technology, improvement of the quality of care for intensive care unit (ICU) patients, and a reduction in healthcare costs. The proposed agitation and sedation system will assist in realizing an improved distribution of ICU workload ...

This Phase II project builds upon previous research to develop a Semantics-Aware Web Screen-Reading Assistant that empowers people with vision impairments to interact with the Web more naturally and efficiently via a spoken-dialog interface that is aware of high-level semantic entities such as an article section, a date picker widget, etc. The Assistant organizes the web content into a collection ...

ABSTRACT:The objective of SHIH-TSU is to develop and commercialize a hypervisor-based patch management system. The capability is to support enterprise virtualization solutions, automatic updating, security update testing, facilitate the installation and management of Windows updates, and be able to update arbitrary, user-defined software.SHIH-TSU will extend the research performed in SHIH-TSU Phas ...

ABSTRACT:The 2011 launches of ORS-1and TacSat-4 have demonstrated the feasibility to rapidly deploy spacecraft. These successes and progress on the Modular Space Vehicle, along with standardization (Space Plug and Play Architecture) continue to show promise in a responsive space architecture focused on modularity and reconfigurability. There is a need to enhance the capability of small spacecraft ...

ABSTRACT:The structural design community regard materials models as fixed inputs to a finite element-based design process, using materials lookup tables to provide data from experimental and/or simulations performed by others. However the accuracy of multiscale materials modeling has improved significantly over the last few decades, yet these simulations have seen little application in structural ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will be the development of a new natural means of treating diseases of fruit orchards and crops as an alternative to antibiotic use. Over 90% of the world's antibiotic use in agriculture is primarily to control fire blight, a disease that kills fruit trees. Fire blight has emerged as the most ...