PFI-BIC: Innovation Transfer of the Portable Nuclear Moment Imaging Platform

PFI-BIC：便携式核矩成像平台的创新转移

• 批准号: 1237814
• 负责人: Mark Davidson
• 金额: $ 59.86万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1237814&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PFI; BIC; Innovation; Transfer; Portable

This Partnerships for Innovation project from University of Florida is focused on developing the nuclear moment imager (NMI) which is a technology that utilizes the directional nature of highly sensitive optical magnetometers to collect an MRI-like image in only seconds without the use of large permanent magnetic fields. It functions more like magnetic tomography than a conventional MRI, in that the magnetic fields from the subject are imaged directly. It can be made portable, and it will be relatively inexpensive compared to MRI. The broader impacts of this research include applications and research in areas as diverse as medical imaging for head trauma, industrial product inspection, agricultural pest control, scientific study of biological processes, ground penetrating imaging, and agricultural product inspection. The nuclear moment imager has the potential to affect many areas of everyday life in such widely varying areas as medicine, agriculture, science, industrial inspection, and other areas yet to be envisioned. One particularly exciting potential application is in third world countries, where the availability of a relatively inexpensive MRI-like imager that could travel with mobile medical teams could change the way "bush medicine" is practiced. The NMI platform and Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI: BIC) research will be housed as a part of the recently formed Center for Innovation Translation. This center allows students to move real-world research projects rapidly to the early prototype stage, thus educating them in early-stage high-tech startup skills, contributing to the overall regional entrepreneurial ecosystem. Partners at the inception of the project: University of Florida with the Microfabritech/Center for Innovation Translation, Materials Science and Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Biomedical Engineering, and Radiology departments participating; Small businesses: Anitraks (Gainesville, FL),an imaging software development firm; Synogen (Gainesville, FL), a medical device development firm; and Medical Tool & Technology (Hawthorne, FL), a medical device prototype manufacturer. All of three of these businesses for profit companies that are fully engaged in the regional entrepreneurial ecosystem. Symmetricom (San Jose, CA), a world leading manufacturer of atomic clocks and atomic physics technology--has recently become a partner on this project and will be working to optimize miniature magnetometers for this application. In addition, the group has very active partnerships with the UF Office of Technology Licensing ,which routinely participates in nurturing entrepreneurial activities in the region,;the Innovation Hub, a newly formed one-stop-shop incubator that specializes in getting new technological business over the early startup difficulties; and the Sid Martin Biotech Center which is a biotechnology focused incubator near Gainesville that is working with more than 30 active small businesses.

佛罗里达大学的这一创新合作项目专注于开发核矩成像仪 (NMI)，该技术利用高灵敏度光学磁力计的方向性，只需几秒钟即可收集类似 MRI 的图像，而无需使用大型永久磁力计。磁场。与传统 MRI 相比，它的功能更像是磁断层扫描，因为对象的磁场是直接成像的。它可以制成便携式的，并且与 MRI 相比相对便宜。这项研究的更广泛影响包括头部创伤医学成像、工业产品检验、农业害虫防治、生物过程科学研究、探地成像和农产品检验等多种领域的应用和研究。核矩成像仪有可能影响日常生活的许多领域，例如医学、农业、科学、工业检查和其他尚未设想的领域。一个特别令人兴奋的潜在应用是在第三世界国家，在那里，一种相对便宜的类似 MRI 的成像仪可以与移动医疗队一起旅行，这可能会改变“丛林医学”的实践方式。 NMI 平台和创新伙伴关系：建设创新能力（PFI：BIC）研究将作为最近成立的创新翻译中心的一部分。该中心使学生能够将现实世界的研究项目快速推进到早期原型阶段，从而教育他们早期高科技创业技能，为整个区域创业生态系统做出贡献。项目启动时的合作伙伴：佛罗里达大学与 Microfabritech/创新翻译中心、材料科学与工程、物理、数学、生物医学工程和放射学系参与；小型企业：Anitraks（佛罗里达州盖恩斯维尔），一家成像软件开发公司； Synogen（佛罗里达州盖恩斯维尔），一家医疗设备开发公司； Medical Tool & Technology（佛罗里达州霍桑）是一家医疗设备原型制造商。所有这三项业务都是以营利为目的的公司，都充分参与了区域创业生态系统。 Symmetricom（加利福尼亚州圣何塞）是一家世界领先的原子钟和原子物理技术制造商，最近成为该项目的合作伙伴，并将致力于优化该应用的微型磁力计。此外，该集团与佛罗里达大学技术许可办公室建立了非常积极的合作伙伴关系，该办公室定期参与该地区的创业活动培育；创新中心是一个新成立的一站式孵化器，专门致力于新技术业务的发展早期创业困难； Sid Martin 生物技术中心是盖恩斯维尔附近的一个专注于生物技术的孵化器，与 30 多家活跃的小企业合作。