New in 2017 Military Medical Photonics Program at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine
Abstract
This proposal spans four major areas of military health research:surviving hemorrhage, detecting and treating infections, enhancing the treatment of burns andwounds, and improving solder performance and field care. Fourteen projects across these focusareas seek to address military medicine priorities and physician requests. To improve theavailability of platelets, they will create a novel optical storage system for prolonging the shelf-lifeof human platelets, as well as an optical analysis tool to assess platelet function. A new way ofdetecting internal bleeding without dyes or probes will be explored along with the development ofan ultrasonic method to control internal bleeding without the need for surgical intervention. Toimprove the diagnosis of infection in the field, a wearable microneedle-based detection systemwill be explored and developed. Two light-based treatment methods will be investigated for low resource field medicine: the first will focus on the rapid treatment of invasive fungal infectionsusing diodes, with the second aiming to improve the therapy of malaria via photodynamic therapy.Two research projects will be focused on creating optical methods for assessing and improving thetreatment of burns using optical coherence tomography. An innovative project investigatingkeloids will examine the molecular factors involved in a false hypoxic alarm and test therapeutictargets. Two methods to achieve post-trauma cartilage regeneration will be examined in vitro andin vivo in healthy and diseased swine models. To protect soldiers hearing, they will develop a newtype of earplug capable of shielding the ear from blast injuries. For improved soldier monitoringand field medicine, a wearable tissue oxygen sensor will be developed and deployed.Photobiomodulation, a simple-to-deploy technology, will be investigated.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jul 28, 2017
- Source ID
- FA95501710277
Entities
People
- R. Rox Anderson
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- United States Air Force