SBIR/STTR Research Award
Phantom Head for Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Current Model Validation
Award amount
$750,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2016Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- ALPHASENSE, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2016-08-15
- Contract end date
- 2018-08-15
- UEI
- QME3ZP5XDM31
- Solicitation number
- 2015.1
- Topic code
- AF151-026
Research abstract
Cognitive skills/capabilities are important for the military personnel to fulfill tasksand to ensure mission efficiency and success. In the past decade, there are abundant researches suggesting that non-invasive brain stimulation via transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) holds great promise to enhance a soldier's cognitive performances. To take full advantage of such a brain stimulation technique, various tDCS models need to be validated using a high- fidelity head phantom. In PhaseI, AlphaSense collaborated with Harvard Medical School and proven the concept of using 3D printing method to fabricate a head phantom for tDCS model validation. In Phase II, we will continue to develop a beta-version, high-fidelity head phantom to obtain significantly improved tDCS model validation accuracy.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- A Novel, Low Cost and Handheld Metal Sorting Sensor for Chemical Cleaning and Stripping Process
- A Novel 3D Printer to Support Additive Manufacturing of Gradient Metal Alloy Structures
- Multimodal Non- destructive Evaluation of Internal Surfaces of Holes in Steel Structures
- A Novel, High Precision, X-ray 3D Scanner for Non-Line-of-Sight Point Cloud Generation
- A Novel Laser Ultrasound Visualization Tool for Non-destructive Evaluation of Composite Aircraft Structures
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- A 3D Printed Head Phantom for Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Current Model Validation
- Anatomic Phantom for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Studies
Research funding history
31 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2008–2017). Reported award amounts total $8,183,315. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Energy