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This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will research, prototype, and test a novel system for improving performance and reducing injuries due to improper body mechanics in sports such as baseball, football, and tennis. The innovation of the proposed system is twofold: First, it builds on the learning theory of real-time feedback combined with inexpensive data collection te ...

Complex and expensive instrumentation is currently required to test the NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) receivers because of their unique characteristics. There is a critical need for a small, portable, dedicated broadcast simulator specifically designed to evaluate NWR system performance. This SBIR Phase I project covers the research directed toward designing, prototyping, and establishing the feasibili ...

High performance energetic materials are based on inorganic thermite mixtures such as MoO3/Al or organic compounds such as RDX. Future developments in explosives are dependent on the fabrication of nanoscale materials and composite mixtures that display higher energy release rates. The ability to tailor composite materials precisely at the nanoscale by fabricating multilayer component particles ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project provides for the manufactureof improved boron nitride (BN) filler materials for electronic thermal management applications. Novel Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) nanocoating is used to selectively functionalize edges only or edges/basal planes to improve wetting of BN platelets with resin encapsulants. The improved wetting allows for signific ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project will develop technology for the manufacture of low cost miniaturized multi-layer capacitors (MLCs). A titania (TiO2) thin film will be deposited on 60 to 150 nanometer nickel (Ni) particles to protect the ultrafine Ni particles from slow oxidation degradation while simultaneously providing a chemically compatible surface with the dielectric ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Murine models of cancer now have an essential role in formulating modern concepts of carcinogenesis and metastasis, and provide us with a realistic means of developing and evaluating new diagnostic and therapeutic techniques. Moreover, transgenic and knock-out techniques for manipulating the genome allow us to tailor animal models that accurately recapitulate ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Phase I: SPECT is non-invasive imaging technique which provides an image of the three dimensional distribution of radionuclide in any slice through an organ under study. These images allow investigation of metabolism in the region being studied and are a useful tool for diagnosing symptoms of diseases such as cancer and myocardial ischemia. SPECT is also showin ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Dramatic advances in imaging technology, especially for small-animal imaging, have been an important driving force in establishing the field of molecular and genomic imaging. One of these new technologies, microPET, has demonstrated a tremendous potential in the study of small animal models, allowing the measurement of biological parameters and permitting i ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project proposes to develop a novel, low cost laboratory instrument for genetic analysis and single molecule studies. The technology is suitable for the detection and identification of DNA and RNA through fluorescent hybridization probes without the need for Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) amplification, or for proteins and small molecules th ...

75096S Although CsI(Tl) has become the scintillator of choice for a wide variety of applications, it is not been widely used in radionuclide imaging or computed tomography (CT). The primary reason is the presence of an afterglow component in its scintillation decay, which reduces the energy resolution in emission tomography and results in image blur in CT. In addition, thick, pixelated scintill ...