Project Grant R44MH112210

This $884,573 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286), is supporting the development of a fast, comprehensive brain MRI technique. The goal is to reduce exam duration by roughly three-fold while capturing quantitative and qualitative MRI contrasts, as well as gadolinium-based enhancement. The project is being led by...

This federal Project Grant award for $103,441, awarded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286), aims to develop and validate a rapid, distortion- and blurring-free, and motion- and B0-robust technique for submillimeter-resolution T2* and quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) quantification. The project, titled "Fast and Robust...

HYQ Research Solutions, LLC was awarded a $998,104 Cooperative Agreement from the National Science Foundation under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop high dielectric constant materials for accelerating 1.5T magnetic resonance imaging. The two-year award will support the company's efforts to increase MRI signal-to-noise ratio by over 50% and cut scan times in half through incorporating high dielectric constant materials into clinical imaging coils. This novel...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286), provides $185,625 to The General Hospital Corporation (doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital) to develop a novel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology. The technology aims to address the flip angle inhomogeneity problem in high-field 7 Tesla MRI through the...

The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded a $417,150 Project Grant under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286) to the University of Maryland, Baltimore. The goal of this 2-year grant, awarded on September 1, 2024, is to develop and validate a novel motion correction technique for 2D T2-weighted structural MRI of the brain. The project aims to eliminate slice alignment errors caused by...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant award of $275,000 to Adialante L.L.C. focuses on the development of techniques to facilitate the design and fabrication of affordable, compact, and patient-friendly magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems, particularly for pediatric applications. The project aims to innovate novel B1 imaging approaches, such as Frequency-Encoded and Phase-Encoded Frequency-Modulated Rabi-Encoded Echoes (FREE), that...

This $1,336,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) under the CFDA 93.286 "Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health" program supports the development of a rapid, motion-robust, and low-gadolinium MRI technology for pediatric brain tumors. The key objectives are to (1) develop cutting-edge technologies for rapid, motion-robust, and quantitative MRI scans to reduce sedation needs...

The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded a $459,264 Project Grant (CFDA 93.286 - Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health) to The Johns Hopkins University to develop the Resolution Enhancement and Contrast Harmonization (REACH) algorithm. REACH aims to super-resolve multi-slice 2D MRI scans and harmonize the contrast of both 2D and 3D MRI images to enable the use of modern AI algorithms on clinical-quality MRI...

This four-year, $1.1 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund the development of physics-informed machine learning techniques to analyze dynamic blood flow from static subtraction computed tomographic angiography imaging. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will train graduate students in deep learning methods and engage undergraduates and local high school students, particularly those from...

The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded a $111,119 Project Grant under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286) to New York University School of Medicine. The funding will support the development of a novel "Zero-Shell Imaging" (ZSI) technique to significantly accelerate the acquisition of high-resolution diffusion MRI data while maintaining image quality and microstructural...