The federal Project Grant award R01EB035144, funded 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 develop a novel molecular imaging technology that combines positron emission tomography (PET) and ultrasound (US) imaging. The $1,541,316 award, with a period of performance from Sep 1, 2024 to May 31, 2028, aims to create a compact PET device with a...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $200,000 to Oakland University aims to develop a novel low-cost, wireless 3D ultrasound imaging system for use in low-resource settings. The key goals are to: 1) establish quantitative tools using signal processing and artificial intelligence to extract ultrasound-derived biomarkers for improved breast cancer diagnosis, and 2) develop a robust calibration, registration, and sensor fusion protocol to...
The federal Project Grant award R56EB033347, in the amount of $499,291.00, was provided by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) under the "Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health" (CFDA 93.286) program. The award will support the development of breakthrough technology to enable future compact, mid-field (0.7 Tesla) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems, with the goal of improving accessibility and...
This federal Project Grant award for $599,191, provided by the National Cancer Institute (CFDA 93.394 Cancer Detection and Diagnosis Research program), supports the development and validation of a 3D dynamic contrast-enhanced ultrasound (3D DCE-US) framework to characterize tumor vascular properties for liver malignancies. The goal is to introduce computational approaches that leverage the interconnected nature of voxels in 3D DCE-US imaging to capture new information beyond conventional...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) is supporting the development of a multiparametric ultrasound imaging system and methodology to objectively characterize vaginal tissue health before and after radiation therapy in endometrial cancer patients. The $263,086 award, with a start date of September 1, 2024 and completion date of August 31, 2026, will fund the creation of a 3D ultrasound platform using...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), under CFDA 93.286 "Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health", is funding the development of a low-cost ultrasound imaging system that can be operated by untrained users. The $294,641 award to Sonovance, Inc., a Maryland small business, aims to optimize and validate their patented system for guiding unskilled operators to obtain diagnostic...
This $175,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of multi-modal soft tissue characterization technologies for non-invasive breast imaging at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth from April 2022 through March 2024. Funded under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the research aims to establish optimization algorithms and parameters for visualizing breast tissue cross-sections non-invasively using an integrated...
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 of ultra-high precision image-guided incisionless transcranial ultrasound surgery technologies. The $2,278,167 award, effective August 20, 2024 through April 30, 2028, will enable the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill)...
This federal Project Grant award of $192,168, provided 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), supports the development of a miniaturized optical coherence tomography (OCT) endoscopic system. The key products to be delivered include: Validation of a low-voltage, high-speed electrowetting-based prism scanner for use in a compact, non-mechanical...
This 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), provides $420,725 to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to conduct research on using negative-index non-resonant acoustic metamaterials (NRAM) for sub-wavelength ultrasound focusing. The project aims to demonstrate NRAM's capabilities for enhancing ultrasound...