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A Low-Cost, Portable Guidance System for Needle Biopsy

Award Number: R43EB015377
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE Of BIOMEDICAL IMAGING & BIOENGINEERING
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 08/01/2013
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 07/31/2016

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A Low-Cost, Portable Guidance System for Needle Biopsy - DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Early disease detection through percutaneous needle biopsies is considered the gold standard for cancer diagnoses and thus for obtaining good health outcomes. This project seeks to ameliorate health disparities by making it possible for general practitioners and other health professionals to perform image-guided needle biopsies in their own office or clinic rather than sending patients with suspect lesions to distant centers. Th key enabling technology is an ultrasound-based guidance system designed to provide intuitive and reliable in-situ guidance that can be used by interventionalists with minimal training, allowing doctors to perform needle biopsies on patients in their own clinic or office. The project consists of three aims. The first aim will develop and evaluate an easy-to-use guidance system for targeted needle biopsy by focusing on the development of the guidance platform itself, including device construction, internal calibration, interfaces to the ultrasound system, and the development of several guidance modes. The second aim will extend guidance system with registration between pre-operative CT and ultrasound foriImage-guided interventions, by providing new algorithms for ultrasound- and surface- to CT registration, making it possible for expert annotations of critical structures to be transferred to the guidance system directly. The third aim will evaluate the system on phantom models and in a pilot animal study by practitioners of varying skill and training levels, and comparing it to state-of-the-art guidance systems. The third aim includes the creation of a health disparity advisory board to guide the further development of the device for deployment to reduce health disparities in rural and underserved populations.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2017 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2017	2014	CLEAR GUIDE MEDICAL, INC.	3600 CLIPPER MILL RD STE 400	BALTIMORE	MD	21211	BALTIMORE CITY	USA	Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health	000	2	11/15/2016	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2014 ( Subtotal = $200,000 )
2014	2014	CLEAR GUIDE MEDICAL LLC	40 WARRENTON ROAD	BALTIMORE	MD	21210	BALTIMORE CITY	USA	Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health	000	2	7/31/2014	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$200,000
														Subtotal = $200,000

Issue Date FY: 2013 ( Subtotal = $199,049 )
2013	2013	CLEAR GUIDE MEDICAL LLC	40 WARRENTON ROAD	BALTIMORE	MD	21210	BALTIMORE CITY	USA	Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health	000	1	7/24/2013	NEW	$199,049
														Subtotal = $199,049

Grand Total All Awards = $399,049

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A Low-Cost, Portable Guidance System for Needle Biopsy

Award Number: R43EB015377

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE Of BIOMEDICAL IMAGING & BIOENGINEERING

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 08/01/2013

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 07/31/2016

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