In FY 1999, BER initiated a new Program in Advance Medical Instrumentation (AMI). The AMI Program supports basic biomedical engineering research that utilizes the unique resources and expertise at DOE National Laboratories to develop new innovative medical technology. The overall goal of the AMI Program is to support basic research and technology development that will ultimately lead to the development of technology that can be transferred to the National Institutes of Health for clinical testing or to industry for further commercial development. The AMI Program supports multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional research projects that address “high-risk” medical technology problems. The focus of the Program is to further develop basic technologies developed in other DOE Programs, such as Defense, Environmental, and Physics into technologies that will have medical applications. To date, 9 innovative multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional (National Laboratories and University) research projects in the areas of; components for artificial organs, medical photonics, smart medical instruments, and biomedical imaging have been funded at total funding of $8 million per year.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Small Animal Radionuclide Imager
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
High-Resolution Opthalmic Imaging Systems using MEMS Adaptive Optics
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Radioisotope Production Using Compact Laser Accelerators
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Development of Long-Term Implantable Biosensors for In-Vivo Diagnostics
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Integrated Optical Sensors for the Diagnosis and Monitoring of Tuberculosis
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Implantable Micro-Instrumentation System for Real-Time Tissue Perfusion Monitoring
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Imaging the Awake Animal Brain
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A High-Density Microelectronic-Tissue Hybrid Sensor for Imaging
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Animal Imaging Apparatus
Dean A. Cole, Ph.D
e-mail: dean.cole@science.doe.gov
