SBIR/STTR Research Award
Autonomous Underwater X-ray (AUXRAY)
Award amount
$69,999Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2004Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Nomadics, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2004-02-27
- Contract end date
- 2004-11-27
- UEI
- EK87N63LP4Y4
- Solicitation number
- 2003.2
- Topic code
- N03-225
Research abstract
Nomadics proposes the development of an x-ray system for use underwater. The proposed sensor is similar to a raster or "flying spot" backscatter imager. These systems operate by scanning an x-ray beam across a surface and monitoring the backscattered energy. There are two significant challenges to this process, first the system has to operate in an incredibly attenuating environment; second, that environment scatters a large portion of the incident energy before it ever reaches the target. With these two design limitations, Nomadics' believes that the key to building a successful Autonomous Underwater X-Ray system (AUXRAY) is to have a large detector area for sensitivity and separation between the source and detector to reject signal from the transiting x-ray beam.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- 3D Scaffold and Stem Cell Based Bioengineered Skin for Treatment of Cutaneous Vesicant Injury
- Field Collection and Analysis of Forensics and Biometric Evidence Associated with IEDs
- Nanoparticle Self-Lighting Photodynamic Therapy For Ovarian Cancer Treatment
- Rapid Cell-based Toxicity Sensor Using Intergrated Micro Ring-resonators as Signal Transducer
- Nanotechnology-based System for the Detection and Photodynamic Neutralization of BW Agents
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Lobster Eye X-Ray Imaging Underwater Scatterometer
- Lobster Eye X-Ray Imaging Underwater Scatterometer
Research funding history
92 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1995–2007). Reported award amounts total $25,070,260. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Commerce