A team from the Morgridge Institute for Research won funding through the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Accelerator Program, the Morgridge Institute announced today.
The group, led by UW-Madison graduate student Brandon Walker, looks to advance a modular, multisource X-ray tube that has applications for both high-speed computed tomography (CT) and 3-D metal printing.
Walker’s design includes a large number of X-ray sources positioned around the patient in stationary modules. From there, all the X-ray sources rapidly trigger electronically one after another.
According to the release, not only will this design help with CT and 3-D metal printing, but it could have effects on the medical industry (e.g. printing of customized medical implants).
The funding from the WARF Accelerator will be used to move the multisource X-ray tube from design to working prototype, set to be used in summer of 2016.
How was the selection criteria made to determine who received funding, and why? How much funding was given to the team at the Morgridge Institute for Research? Is the funding going to be used for research, or for building a company around this research?