SBIR/STTR Research Award
DESKTOP MAGNET FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI)
Award amount
$500,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1993Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Tecmag, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- S564HUUJLJY3
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A 0.2T "DESKTOP" MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING SYSTEM (MRI) FOR HUMAN LIMBS OR SMALL ANIMALS AND MATERIALS. THE DESIGN IS BASED ON A PERMANENT MAGNET, THUS REQUIRING NO EXTERNAL POWER OR CRYOGENIC MAINTENANCE. BECAUSE OF THE MINIMAL FRINGE FIELD OF THE MAGNET, SUCH A SYSTEM CAN BE SITED IN NORMAL OFFICE SPACE. DURING PHASE I, A PERMANENT MAGNET WILL BE MANUFACTURED AND TESTED. THIS PROTOTYPE MAGNET WILL HAVE A FIELD OF 0.2T. PHASE I WILL ALSO INCLUDE SIMPLE NMR MEASUREMENTS TO MAP THE MAGNETIC FIELD, ADJUST THE SHIMMING, AND MEASURE THE ACHIEVABLE IMAGING VOLUME. PHASE II WOULD BE TO BUILD A COMPLETE IMAGING SYSTEM AROUND THIS MAGNET AND A SET OF PULSED GRADIENT COILS. FINALLY, PHASE III WOULD BE PRODUCTION OF A MRI DESKTOP SYSTEM.
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.
- Portable NMR spectrometer (with magnet)
- Portable NMR Spectrometer Console
- LOW COST NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE INSTRUMENTATION
- LOW COST NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE INSTRUMENTATION
- NMR PROCESSING SOFTWARE FOR MACINTOSH COMPUTERS
Research funding history
9 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1987–2006). Reported award amounts total $2,327,190. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation, Department of Energy