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Highly Accurate Radio Chip Localization Technology

Summary: This technology, developed at Vanderbilt University's Institute for Software Integrated Systems, uses radio interferometry to locate tangible objects and attains, simultaneously, a higher degree of accuracy (within 3 centimeters), considerably longer range (up to 160 meters) and lower cost than other technologies.
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Brain Shift Compensation Using Computer Models

This technology eliminates the need to place cortical fiducial markers during image guided neurosurgery. As an additional and important feature, the technology is able to compensate for brain shift due to deformation of the brain during surgery.

OLINDA/EXM Radiation Dose Assessment Software Application (FDA Approved)

The OLINDA/EXM® personal computer code performs dose calculations and kinetic modeling for radiopharmaceuticals (OLINDA/EXM stands for Organ Level INternal Dose Assessment/EXponential Modeling). OLINDA® calculates radiation doses to different organs of the body from systemically administered radiopharmaceuticals and performs regression analysis on user-supplied biokinetic data to support such calculations for nuclear medicine drugs. These calculations are used to perform risk/benefit evaluations of the use of such pharmaceuticals in diagnostic and therapeutic applications in nuclear medicine. The technology employs a number of standard body models for adults, children, pregnant women and others, that are widely accepted and used in the internal dose community. The calculations are useful to pharmaceutical industry developers, nuclear medicine professionals, educators, regulators, researchers and others who study the accepted radiation doses that should be delivered when radioactive drugs are given to patients or research subjects.

Vanderbilt Performance Evaluation System (VPES) & Job Descriptions Database

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) job performance evaluations are part of an annual cycle called performance development in which supervisors and staff members identify and tackle specific job goals with close attention given to the VUMC mission, credo and job descriptions. Many hospital systems, including VUMC, now desire to base annual salary increases largely on performance evaluation ratings. VPES and the Job Description Database allow performance evaluations to be applied consistently and efficiently across the organization.

Core Ordering and Reporting Enterprise System (CORES™)

CORES™ is a highly configurable, enterprise-wide software solution for research institutions. CORES™ provides full central oversight while also allowing for flexible but consistent decentralized billing and usage functionality for core facilities. This software allows core managers and customers to enter orders using a variety of methods. The software also allows customers in product cores to scan their items at a self-service checkout terminal that provides full real-time inventory management. Orders are accumulated into electronic invoices and e-mailed to customers each month. An electronic upload file containing order information is also created for the finance department. Vanderbilt has approximately 90 internal cores using this software. In addition, the software is used by several other institutions to whom the software has been licensed.

Sampling Algorithm for the Reproduction of Complex Digital Signals

This technology utilizes a set of mathematical algorithms that permit fast and robust reconstruction of signals from digital samples without the need to resort to band limitations or uniform sampling. This allows a signal to be digitized in a more sophisticated way, sampling it at frequent intervals when it is rapidly changing, and less often when it is changing slowly. Band limits imposed by uniform sampling are eliminated.

ProcoderDV

Procoder for Digital Video (ProcoderDV) was developed at the John F. Kennedy Center at Vanderbilt University to facilitate the collection of different forms of observational data from digital media files. Media files can be any files that contain events of interest on digital video or audio files. Data files can be of two general types: event files or transcription files. Files can be exported into MOOSES (Tapp & Wehby, 1995) format or SALT (Miller & Chapman, 1993) format or can be read directly by many popular statistical or spreadsheet programs. A code file can be used in conjunction with ProcoderDV to guide the coder inmarking events for later quantification and analysis.

Fault-Adaptive Control Technology Toolsuite (FACT)

The FACT toolsuite assists engineers working with complex aerospace systems to design and implement control systems that can maintain control even when the controlled system "fails." The tool suite uses a model-based approach where the designer creates design models of the plant and its associated control system, and the tools automatically generate code that implements fault-detection, isolation and control reconfiguration functions.

INTMAN Interval Manager for Windows and Pocket PC

Interval Manager (INTMAN) is a computer-assisted alternative to traditional paper and pencil methods for collecting fixed interval time sampled observational data. The INTMAN data collection software runs on Pocket PC hand held computers and includes a desktop application for Microsoft Windows that is used for data analysis. Standard analysis options include modified frequencies, percent of intervals, conditional probabilities, and Kappa agreement matrices and values.

Multi-Option Observation System for Experimental Studies (MOOSES)

MOOSES (Multi-Option Observation System for Experimental Studies). This software system makes it easy to collect and analyze data about any type of real time events. Data can be collected using your PC, a laptop, A handheld PC, or a PocketPC and later analyzed on several dimensions. Data collected from digital audio and video files using ProcoderDV can also be analyzed using MOOSES. This type of data can help you make accurate assessment of what is happening in the real time system you are observing. Several analysis options are provided and described at the website.

Multiple Simultaneous Acoustic Source Localization in Multipath Environments

Robust and accurate sensor fusion algorithm using time of arrival data for acoustic event localization. The fusion algorithm compensates for incorrect measurements including multipath effects. The algorithm is capable of localizing multiple simultaneous sources with a high degree of accuracy.

A Sensor-Based Online Diagnostic Approach for Physical Systems

This technology addresses the problem of designing and implementing online monitoring and diagnosis systems for complex hybrid systems by focusing on faults that occur in plant components and contains models where faults are represented by changes in system parameters. Hybrid systems are common in the avionics, spacecraft, automotive and robotics domains where behavior is characterized by continuous plant dynamics and discrete supervisory control. These hybrid systems require a tool that analyzes and seamlessly integrates multiple system models on a discrete and continuous basis. As a result, tasks like monitoring, fault diagnosis and control require model selection and switching to be performed online as system behavior evolves.

Contextualized Feedback Systems

Contextualized feedback intervention and training protocol is a form assessment. It enables behavioral healthcare practitioners to assess and categorize the behavioral health status of patients in a mental health context. It also provides a training protocol for providers.

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