NASA Spinoff
Health and Medicine
Spinoff: Health and Medicine
Segmenting Images For A Better Diagnosis
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Originally conceived for use in terrestrial remote sensing applications, NASA's Hierarchical Segmentation (HSEG) software has found its way into a...
Spinoff: Health and Medicine
'Contact' In Space Leads To New Lenses
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
While gravity has its advantages in keeping us balanced and grounded here on Earth, scientists often find that they are at a disadvantage when...
Spinoff: Health and Medicine
Settling The Score With Heart Disease
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Technology and medicine forged a bond in 1986 when a group of dedicated NASA scientists, University of Southern California (USC) medical professors,...
Spinoff: Health and Medicine
Freeing Water From Viruses And Bacteria
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Four years ago, Argonide Corporation, a company focused on the research, production, and marketing of specialty nano materials, was seeking to...
Spinoff: Health and Medicine
A Bright Idea For The Eye
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Throughout its existence, NASA has made many amazing discoveries in the field of optics that have led to improved eye care and eye wear applications on Earth....
Spinoff: Health and Medicine
Gearing Up For The Big Game And More
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Honored as an inductee of the U.S. Space Foundation's Space Technology Hall of Fame and recognized by the American Astronautical Society as "one of...
Spinoff: Health and Medicine
Discovering New Drugs on the Cellular Level
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
With the Vision for Space Exploration calling for a sustained human presence in space, astronauts will need to grow plants, while in orbit, for...
Spinoff: Health and Medicine
Lighting the Way for Quicker, Safer Healing
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Who's to say that a little light can't go a long way? Tiny light-emitting diode (LED) chips used to grow plants in space are lighting the way...
Spinoff: Health and Medicine
From Planetary Imaging to Enzyme Screening
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
To work in NASA’s Mission Control Center and share in the excitement of seeing the very first close-up images of Saturn being piped back to...
Spinoff: Health and Medicine
Space-Proven Medical Monitor: The Total Patient-Care Package
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
By mid-1963, American astronauts had visited space on six different occasions, all as part of NASA’s first human space...
Spinoff: Health and Medicine
Ingestible Thermometer Pill Aids Athletes in Beating the Heat
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
From the football turf to high above the Earth, heat exhaustion is a life-threatening concern. Heat exhaustion, or...
Spinoff: Health and Medicine
A Real Attention-Getter
While most parents would agree that playing video games is the antithesis of time well spent for their children, recent advances involving NASA biofeedback technology are proving otherwise.
The same...
Spinoff: Health and Medicine
A Robot to Help Make the Rounds
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
What employee never takes a vacation or a break, never calls in sick, works around the clock 365 days a year, has more than 3 million hours of experience,...
Spinoff: Health and Medicine
Hearing Is Believing
Twenty-six years ago, Adam Kissiah delivered a medical wonder to the world that has resulted in restored hearing for thousands of individuals, and allowed thousands of others born deaf to perceive sound for the very...
Spinoff: Health and Medicine
Protein Crystal Growth
Proteins are the chemical building blocks from which all human cells, organs, and tissues are made. They also serve as the hormones, enzymes, and antibodies that help the body fight off invading germs. Determining...
Spinoff: Health and Medicine
Express Testing Makes for More Effective Vet Visit
From “man’s best friend” to the exotic mammals and reptiles that grace the grounds of a zoo, recent improvements in wellness and prevention care are leading to longer and healthier...
Spinoff: Health and Medicine
New Modular Camera No Ordinary Joe
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
Although dubbed “Little Joe” for its small-format characteristics, a new wavefront sensor camera has proved that it is far from coming up short when...
Spinoff: Health and Medicine
Improving Vision
Many people are familiar with the popular science fiction series Star Trek: The Next Generation, a show featuring a blind character named Geordi La Forge, whose visor-like glasses enable him to see. What many people do...
Spinoff: Health and Medicine
Striding Towards Better Physical Therapy
Originating Technology/NASA Contribution
A new rehabilitative device promises to improve physical therapy for patients working to regain the ability to walk after facing traumatic...
Spinoff: Health and Medicine
Monitoring Outpatient Care
Each year, health care costs for managing chronically ill patients increase as the life expectancy of Americans continues to grow. To handle this situation, many hospitals, doctors’ practices, and home care...