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April 10, 2008
David E. Steitz
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1730
RELEASE: 08-099
SPACE TECHNOLOGY HALL OF FAME INDUCTS NASA SPINOFF TECHNOLOGIES
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- During a ceremony at the National Space Symposium in
Colorado Springs Thursday, the Space Foundation will induct three
NASA-developed technologies into the Space Technology Hall of Fame. A medical
diagnostic software tool that measures the thickness of arteries, a
non-invasive medical device that improves blood flow to the heart and brain,
and a technology that safely removes petroleum-based pollutants from water or
soil each are being recognized as important products that originated from space
technology.
The medical diagnostic software tool initially was developed by NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. ArterioVision software is a
diagnostic tool used in conjunction with a standard ultrasound to precisely
measure the thickness of the two inner layers of the carotid artery. Arterial
thickening can provide the earliest evidence of atherosclerosis, or hardening
of the arteries. ArterioVision technology is derived from video imaging
communication and retrieval software used to process pictures from spacecraft
imagery.
ArterioVision allows doctors to measure the age and health of a patient's
arteries and better predict and prevent the risk of heart disease and stroke.
Medical Technologies International, Inc. of Palm Desert, Calif., the company
that patented the software, will be inducted for ArterioVision along with JPL
and the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine in Los
Angeles.
The second technology inductee, ResQPOD, is a non-invasive medical device that
helps improve cardiac output and blood flow to the brain during CPR compared to
conventional resuscitation techniques. ResQPOD is used by emergency medical
services and hospitals for patients suffering breathing problems, cardiac
arrest or other conditions attributed to low blood pressure. It works by
increasing blood flow to the heart and brain until the heart can be restarted.
Developed by NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Army and private
industry, the device is used to help astronauts reacquaint themselves with the
feeling of gravity by quickly and effectively increasing the circulation of
blood flow to the brain. Advanced Circulatory Systems, Minneapolis, Minn., and
the KSC Biomedical Lab, Cape Canaveral, Fla., will be inducted as the
innovating organizations behind the ResQPOD technology.
A third technology inductee, the Petroleum Remediation Product (PRP), safely
and permanently removes petroleum-based pollutants from water or soil. The
delivery system of this water treatment process grew out of NASA biological
encapsulation research and experimentation in the orbital production of
microspheres.
The PRP uses microcapsules, tiny balls of beeswax with hollow centers, which
absorb and bind with petroleum or other hydrocarbon products.
The microspheres serve as nutrients to assist naturally occurring microbes in
soil or water to biodegrade contaminants.
NASA's JPL proved the feasibility of encapsulating live cells, while technology
developed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., for
experiments in orbital production of microspheres gave the basic design of the
delivery system. Industry scientists worked with researchers at NASA to develop
the technology.
Universal Remediation, Inc. of Pittsburgh has developed a number of customized
products using this technology to treat environmental contamination.
The technologies being recognized by the Space Technology Hall of Fame are
possible, in part, because of NASA's Innovative Partnership Program. The
program, managed at NASA Headquarters in Washington, works to transfer NASA
technology for broad public benefit. It also provides needed technology and
capabilities for NASA's mission directorates, programs and projects through
leveraged investments and partnerships with industry, academia, government
agencies and national laboratories.
There are Innovative Partnership Program offices at all NASA centers that
facilitate new and innovative partnerships, provide technology solutions for
NASA missions, and help NASA accelerate technology maturation.
For more about NASA's Innovative Partnership Program, visit:
http://www.ipp.nasa.gov
For a complete list of all Space Technology Hall of Fame inducted technologies,
organizations, and individuals, visit:
http://www.SpaceTechHallofFame.org
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