Articles: Aerospace
Top prizes in the 2015 Create the Future Design Contest were awarded on November 6 in New York City. The Grand Prize winner, and winners in seven categories, took home awards for...
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The field of wireless vital sign monitoring has a relatively long history, almost as long as radar itself. Doppler radar has been the primary sensor technology for detecting blood flow...
Articles: Medical
Delgado, and Will Clifton
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Articles: Imaging
By detecting nearly imperceptible changes in skin color, emerging imaging technologies have been able to extract pulse rate, breathing rate, and other vital...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Method and Device for Biometric Subject Verification and Identification
This invention allows the verification and identification of a person based on features extracted from one or more electrocardiographic leads or channels. For identification purposes, the invention can be used to identify a subject from a group of known subjects. For...
Briefs: Medical
Signal Processing Software for Remote Vital Sign Monitoring
This software provides the processing for a non-contact system that remotely estimates the heart rate and respiration rate of individuals as they carry on daily activities, and also enables detection of heart and respiration rate through walls.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Test, Calibration, and Training Target for a Microwave Sensor
Human subjects are unsuitable for objective performance testing of victim detection radar because their heart and respiration rates are not controllable or repeatable. There are limitations on human targets from a safety standpoint as well. It is difficult to relate the ground truth...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Medigus, Ltd.
Omer, Israel
011 972 8646 6880
www.medigus.com
NASA has incorporated the micro ScoutCam 1.2 into its Visual Inspection...
Briefs: Information Technology
Predicting Heart Age Using Electrocardiography
Knowledge of a patient’s cardiac age, or “heart age,” could prove useful to both patients and physicians for encouraging lifestyle changes that are potentially beneficial for cardiovascular health. This may be particularly true for patients who exhibit symptoms, but who test negative for...
Briefs: Medical
HeartBeatID – Heart Electrical Actions as Biometric Indicia
One or more biometric indicia, such as fingerprints, voice prints, retinal scans, and facial features, are often used to identify or authenticate the identity of a user seeking access to a given resource. Cardiac muscle is myogenic and is capable of generating an action potential and...
Articles: Test & Measurement
Have you ever felt nauseous reading a book in the back seat of a car? Did you ever wake up from a deep sleep feeling disoriented? Momentary incidents like these happen when the sensory systems that...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Special care needs to be taken when handling delicate materials used in medical applications. Small diameters provide increased flexibility needed for long-flex-life applications such as cardiac catheter wires....
Briefs: Physical Sciences
Testing of victim detection radars has traditionally used human subjects who volunteer to be buried in, or climb into a space within, a rubble pile. This is not only uncomfortable, but can be...
Articles: Aerospace
Long-duration spaceflight poses many hazards to the health of a space exploration crew, including physiological deconditioning of the musculoskeletal and cardiovascular systems due to...
Briefs: Medical
An improved method for culturing immature muscle cells (myoblasts) into a mature skeletal muscle overcomes some of the notable limitations of prior culture methods....
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Tobii REX
www.tobii.com
Users of the Tobii Technology REX, a USB-connected peripheral, may want to be careful about rolling their eyes. REX, a device that...
Research News: Lighting
Low-Level Light Therapy Could Be Used to Treat Alzheimer’s Patients
Among Americans over 80, who represent the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population, half are debilitated with a neurodegenerative disorder. Of this group, 5.4 million now have Alzheimer’s Disease, and according to recent data released by the Alzheimer’s Association,...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Historically, the displays deployed in military vehicles have been simple monitors, acting as an interface to an onboard system. That’s no longer good enough. As military vehicles are equipped with more...
Articles: Medical
Even with floatation gear, when a person who is not prepared...
Briefs: Medical
Improving Balance Function Using Low Levels of Electrical Stimulation of the Balance Organs
Crewmembers returning from long duration space flight face significant challenges due to the microgravity induced inappropriate adaptations in balance/sensorimotor function. The Neuroscience Laboratory at JSC is developing a method based on stochastic...
Application Briefs: Medical
Johns Hopkins engineers, recognized as experts in medical robotics, are helping NASA with a space dilemma: How can the agency fix valuable satellites that are breaking...
Articles: Medical
XVIVO Perfusion,
Englewood, CO
In the United States, only 15% of available donor lungs are transplanted into critical recipients...
Briefs: Medical
External Cooling Coupled to Reduced Extremity Pressure Device
Although suited astronauts are currently cooled with a Liquid Cooled Ventilation Garment (LCVG), which can remove up to 85 percent of body heat, their effectiveness is limited because cooling must penetrate layers of skin, muscle, fat, bone, and tissue to reach the bloodstream, where...
Briefs: Medical
The MDMouse system incorporates a pre-existing medical device into a conventional computer control mouse. The tool is designed to measure blood pressure outside of the medical environment, and to provide that...
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The Create the Future Design Contest was launched in 2002 by the publishers of NASA Tech Briefs to help stimulate and reward engineering innovation. The competition has attracted...
Research News: Lighting
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
Keon Jae Lee, a professor in KAIST's Department of Materials...
Articles: Medical
(Winner of an HP Workstation)
IDEA Enhanced Pulse Oximetry
Application Briefs: Imaging
People whose bodies cannot produce effective or sufficient insulin are said to have diabetes. This chronic disease has several serious long-term effects that are well documented:...
Articles: Medical
As devices for disease detection and diagnosis become more advanced, they also are becoming smaller. Next-generation technologies for faster detection of diseases such as cardiovascular disease,...
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