SBIR/STTR Research Award
FREQUENCY-AGILE OPTICAL IMAGING OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
Award amount
$49,989Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1993Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Science Foundation
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- CIENCIA INC
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Q7TKCXQFD2J1
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
RESEARCHERS ARE DEVELOPING A NOVEL OPTICAL IMAGING SYSTEM FOR STUDIES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. THE CONCEPT IS BASED ON THE USE OF ACOUSTO-OPTIC TUNABLE FILTERS AS SPECTRAL SELECTION ELEMENTS IN A CONFOCAL FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE. IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE USE OF MULTIPLY-LABELED SPECIMENS, THE INSTRUMENT PERMITS INVESTIGATION OF NEUROCHEMISTRY-SPECIFIC THREE-DIMENSIONAL ARCHITECTURE NERVOUS TISSUE. THE RAPID BANDPASS SWITCHING TIME OF THE ACOUSTO-OPTIC DEVICES PERMITS DYNAMIC STUDIES TO BE PERFORMED ON A TIMESCALE COMMENSURATE WITH THE ELECTRICAL SIGNALING OF NEURONS.
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.
- Highly-sensitive, rapid and low cost plasmonic assay platform for Lyme disease diagnosis
- Measuring toxicant effects on cellular function in a microarray format
- Simultaneous kinetic analyses of neuronal connectivities
- Measuring toxicant effects on cellular function in a microarray format
- High-content Label-free Electro-optic Surface Plasmon Resonance Assay Platform
Research funding history
77 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1992–2022). Reported award amounts total $17,671,955. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Health and Human Services, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy