
A New Generation, Enhanced, Corneal-Birefringence-Independent Retinalscanning Device for Pediatric Vision Disorders Using Polarization ModulationAward last edited on: 1/22/2021
Sponsored Program
STTRAwarding Agency
NIH : NEITotal Award Amount
$225,000Award Phase
1Solicitation Topic Code
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Boris I GramatikovCompany Information
Phase I
Contract Number: 1R41EY030382-01A1Start Date: 9/1/2020 Completed: 8/31/2021
Phase I year
2020Phase I Amount
$225,000Public Health Relevance Statement:
Project Narrative Rebion (REBIScan, Inc) has an FDA-cleared device along with its own unique CPT insurance billing code that detects amblyopia and strabismus, the leading causes of preventable vision loss in children in the United States. Researchers at Johns Hopkins have developed a breakthrough approach for enhancing accuracy of amblyopia detection that can be readily implemented in to the Rebion device. This collaboration will accelerate the commercial adoption of medical and academic research that can help save vision in tens of thousands of children nationwide.
Project Terms:
2 year old; Adopted; Adoption; Affect; Age; Amblyopia; Anisometropia; base; Birefringence; Blindness; care costs; care outcomes; Caring; Child; Childhood; Code; Collaborations; Computer Models; Cornea; Data; Databases; deprivation; design; Detection; Device Designs; Devices; digital; Disease; Early Diagnosis; Evaluation; Eye; Eye diseases; Financial compensation; Funding; Generations; Hand; Human; improved; innovation; Insurance; Intervention; Laboratories; Lazy Eyes; Left; Legal patent; Light; liquid crystal; mathematical model; Measures; Mechanics; Medical; Methods; Modeling; neglect; Nerve Fibers; new technology; Noise; novel; Only Child; operation; Optics; Outcome; Output; Patients; Pattern; Performance; Phase; phase 1 study; polarized light; Population; Prevalence; Privatization; Publishing; Pupil; Quality of Care; Reproducibility; Research; Research Personnel; Retina; Risk Factors; Running; sample fixation; Scanning; Scientist; screening; Signal Transduction; Source; Specialist; Specificity; stem; Strabismus; Structure; Subtraction Technique; System; Techniques; Technology; Testing; United States; Universities; Vision; Vision Disorders; Vision Screening; Work
Phase II
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