Goddard’s Cable-Compliant Joint Technology Gets Patients Up and Walking with SAM
Using NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s cable-compliant joint (CCJ) technology and compliant walker, Enduro Medical Technology developed the Secure Ambulation Module (SAM). SAM is a revolutionary rehabilitative walker enabling patients to stand and ambulate without the aid of a physical therapist. The walker is currently being used to help soldiers and other patients with a variety of injuries.
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Breast Biopsy System
A commercial derivative of a charge coupled device used on the Hubble Space Telescope has contributed importantly to a non-surgical and much less traumatic breast biopsy technique. The technique, which is replacing surgical biopsy as the method of choice in many cases, is saving women time, pain, scarring, radiation exposure and money.
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A Gold Medal Finish
In February of 1998, the U.S. Speedskating Team was coming off of a performance that yielded a silver medal and a bronze medal at the Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan. Determined to win the coveted gold medal, the skaters looked ahead, setting their sights on a stronger showing at the 2002 Salt Lake City, Utah, games. As fate would have it, the “competitive edge” the team would need to live out these dreams would come compliments of the founder of a company by the same name—in collaboration with NASA.  
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Ingestible Thermometer Pill Aids Athletes in Beating the Heat
From the football turf to high above the Earth, heat exhaustion is a life-threatening concern. In order to monitor the body temperature of astronauts during space flight, NASA teamed up with Johns Hopkins University in the late 1980s to develop the Ingestible Thermal Monitoring System. Incorporating a number of space technologies, including wireless telemetry (wireless signal transmission), microminiaturized circuitry, sensors, and batteries, the "thermometer pill" became commercially available in research, university, and military markets in 1988.
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Intellectual Dummies
A Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)-funded project involving NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Triangle Research & Development Corporation (Triangle R&D), of Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, resulted in “Smart Eyes,” a charge coupled device (CCD) camera that, for the first time, could read and measure bar codes without the use of lasers. By pairing this new technology with a newly developed mask by the DOT, a system that could provide repeatable, computerized evaluations of laceration injury was born. 
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Low-Cost, High-Quality Carbon Nanotubes Enter the Marketplace
University and industry researchers now have access to high-quality single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) through Idaho Space Materials (ISM) and its NOMEC 1556 product. These SWCNTs, which are made without the use of a metal catalyst, are manufactured using a process that originated at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
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Goddard’s HHT Helps Scientists Analyze Highway and Bridge Safety
A three-year agreement with Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) has enabled scientists to learn how to apply NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT) technology to analyses of traffic flow data, wind and traffic interaction with bridges, and damage detection in pavement and bridges.
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Med-Seg™ Device Developed by Bartron Greatly Improves Medical Imaging
Bartron Medical Imaging is using NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Recursive Hierarchical Segmentation (RHSEG) software as a key technology in its Med-Seg™ imaging device. Med-Seg is intended to analyze digital x-rays, soft tissue scans, mammograms, ultrasounds, MRI images, and CT scans for the diagnosis and management of diseases.  The image segmentations the RHSEG software produces allow the Med-Seg device to bring out details not previously seen with the naked eye, greatly aiding disease diagnoses.
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A Programmable Pacemaker
An advanced Trilogy™ cardiac pacemaker that incorporates multiple NASA-developed technologies provides physicians with unprecedented programming capabilities, plus more detailed information on the patient's health and the performance of the pacing system.
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Insulin Delivery System
The Programmable Implantable Medication System (PIMS), when implanted in the human body, delivers precise preprogrammed amounts of insulin over long periods of time. Originally developed at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University as a technology utilization project sponsored by Goddard Space Flight Center, the technology was licensed and refined by MiniMed Technologies. It is estimated that one million insulin-dependent diabetics in the United States will benefit from implantable infusion systems.
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