This Project Grant award of $408,400 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) will fund the development and assessment of a wearable magnetoencephalography (MEG) system for use in children. The funding will support two key objectives: Developing and optimizing an optically pumped magnetometers (OPM)-based MEG recording system that can accommodate the variable...
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded a $1,458,572 Cooperative Agreement under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286) to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Sandia Corp) to develop closed-loop triaxial optically pumped magnetometers for high-sensitivity and high-bandwidth magnetoencephalography (MEG) measurements of the developing brain. The funding will...
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded a $305,000 Project Grant (CFDA 93.286 - Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health) to Odmr Technologies, Inc. to develop a miniature diamond quantum sensor for magnetoencephalography (MEG). The key objectives are to: 1) Build a miniature flux-concentrator diamond sensor with infrared absorption detection, and 2) Demonstrate a sensitivity of ~10 femtotesla for 1 second...
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) awarded a $1,360,447.52 Project Grant under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286) to The General Hospital Corporation, doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), to develop and evaluate an inexpensive, lightweight "brain monitor" device using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology. The goal is to create a portable MRI-based...
This Project Grant awarded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will support research to identify optimal electrophysiological markers for predicting developmental outcomes in infants. The $147,037 award to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute will fund a study examining the similarity between resting-state and auditory...
This Cooperative Agreement 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 $422,619 to Trustees of Boston University to develop and demonstrate ultra-high density wearable functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) systems. The goal is to enable continuous tracking of human brain function and behavior in real-world environments,...
This $193,953 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) aims to develop and apply a novel ultrasonic brain imaging technology called functional ultrasound imaging (FUSI) to study motor activity in behaving infants. The project has two key objectives: 1) to assess the functional organization of the motor system in typically developing infants performing a reaching task using FUSI,...
This $537,730 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to develop advanced in vivo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technologies for studying infant brain development. The primary objectives are to achieve motion-robust, high-resolution (600mm isotropic) whole-brain quantitative MRI (qMRI) and diffusion MRI (dMRI) within clinically feasible scan...
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...
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...