The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded a $502,841 Project Grant under the "Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health" (CFDA 93.286) program to The Regents of the University of California, operating as Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). The funding will support research and development of a novel detector readout concept for monolithic scintillation detectors that enables direct digitization...
This $536,954 Project Grant 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) will fund research and development of a novel ultra-high-spatial resolution computed tomography (UHR-CT) system using photon-counting detectors and multiple x-ray focal spots. The research aims to overcome limitations of current high-resolution CT systems by developing...
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 $616,033 to the University of California, Davis to develop and validate a PET-enabled dual-energy CT (DECT) imaging method. The goal is to create a technique that can derive a high-energy gamma-ray CT (GCT) image from standard PET/CT emission data, and combine it with...
This Project Grant award, totaling $999,928, was provided by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP) under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351). The award will fund the acquisition of a high-performance small animal SPECT/CT system with state-of-the-art solid-state cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) detectors at The Johns Hopkins University. This specialized imaging system will support ongoing research projects focused on developing novel...
This Project Grant award from 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, provides $641,063 to develop a dynamic, customizable, vendor-neutral patient projection data library and virtual imaging trial (VIT) software platform (DICOM-CTPD-VIT). This platform will enable the generation of a diverse range of imaging conditions, including...
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded a $359,995 Project Grant under the "Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health" (CFDA 93.286) program to Clemson University. The funding supports the development and validation of a novel X-ray visualized immunosensor (X-VIS) that can be attached to implanted medical devices to detect and monitor local infection biomarkers. The project aims to fabricate a...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), under the federal Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286), provides $174,375.00 to The Johns Hopkins University from December 5, 2024 to November 30, 2027. The project aims to develop new methods for incorporating the radioactive isotope fluorine-18 into complex biomolecules using metal-fluorine bond formation. This will...
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded a $249,000 Project Grant under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286) to The Regents of the University of Colorado. The grant will fund the development of a next-generation photoacoustic computed tomography through an ergodic relay (PACTER) device for non-invasive monitoring of cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen. The project aims to address the...
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), will support the development and optimization of a modular time-of-flight (TOF) positron emission tomography (PET) prototype scanner. The goal is to create a flexible PET system with an extended axial field of view over 1 meter, which can enable faster and more cost-effective...
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded a $1,149,264 Project Grant under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286) to The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The grant, awarded on March 1, 2025 with a final completion date of February 28, 2029, will support the development of a rapid, inexpensive microfluidics-based approach for dose-on-demand production of ready-to-inject...