This federal Project Grant award, 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 novel open-source optimization framework for the design and simulation of radiofrequency (RF) coils used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The $595,870 award, effective January 3, 2025 through December 31, 2028, will...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), under the Federal Grant Program "Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health" (CFDA 93.286), provides $350,242 to New York University School of Medicine to develop a novel, rapid, and memory-efficient open-source software for radiofrequency (RF) coil modeling in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The aim is to create an innovative...
This Project Grant award of $1,152,939 from 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 supports the development of a highly innovative wireless MRI scanner architecture. The key products and services to be delivered include: A stand-alone, platform-independent high-channel-count wireless integrated radio-frequency (RF)/shim coil array...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $183,980 to support research on the theoretical and algorithmic foundations of novel medical imaging modalities at the University of Arizona. The research aims to advance the underlying mathematics and image reconstruction algorithms for emerging modalities like photoacoustic tomography, magnetoacoustoelectric tomography, and ultrasound current density imaging....
This federal Project Grant award of $1,117,458, granted 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, is funding the development of next-generation in-vivo diffusion MRI (dMRI) technologies. The goal is to overcome current challenges in dMRI, such as lack of sensitivity to small yet crucial brain structures and limited ability to measure...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award to New York University (NYU) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop an advanced software tool that automates the design and optimization of electromagnetic (EM) systems, with a focus on improving the performance of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) devices. The $1,164,641 award, effective from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026, will create a software pipeline that combines geometry...
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 (MGH), to research and develop a multiphoton parallel transmit system for 7 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The project aims to address the flip angle inhomogeneity...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $460,000 Project Grant to The Ohio State University for the period of September 15, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The grant is for a research project titled "HIGH ACCURACY IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION USING MICROWAVE MEASUREMENTS FROM BIO-MATCHED ANTENNAS AND DEEP LEARNING: A SYNTHESIZED X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY APPROACH." The key objectives are to: 1) develop a deep learning neural network...
This $305,000 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 funding the development of a miniature diamond quantum sensor for magnetoencephalography (MEG) imaging. The goal is to create a lower-cost, high-resolution brain imaging system to study neurological disorders like traumatic brain injury, schizophrenia, and epilepsy....
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), will fund research to develop wireless MRI receive arrays. The key products and services to be delivered include: Architecturing wireless MRI arrays by developing supporting technologies such as wireless power transfer, low-power receiver electronics, wireless coil...