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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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