Scientist: Reshef Tenne

Novel nanoparticle lubricants can significantly reduce friction of different dental devices and enable reduction of treatment times. Different dental applications suffer from excessive friction, which severely compromise their function. For orthodontic procedures, friction significantly reduces effectiveness and thereby ... Read more

Scientist: Noam Sobel

Spinal cord injuries (SCI) patients are deprived from using their abdominal muscles in order to facilitate an efficient cough and clear their airways. Functional Electric Stimulation (FES) may provide the abdominal contraction that is required; however, in order for such a device to fully substitute the help of a caregiv ... Read more

Scientist: David Tannor

Our scientific team has discovered a method to apply the Gabor Transform to signal processing and data compression.Compared to existing methods that are based on Fourier transform, the new method provides for up to 25% savings in content size for video, audio and images, without any loss in quality.By embracing our metho ... Read more

Scientist: Michal Neeman

Novel reporter gene for magnetic resonance imaging applications.The ability to image the duration and location of gene expression in vivo and noninvasively is imperative for the future of biology and clinical medicine. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a widely used noninvasive clinical diagnostic tool that offers view ... Read more

Scientist: Alon Harmelin

Subdural hematoma (SDH) is a collection of blood between the inner layer of the dura and the brain that occurs mostly as a result of trauma.  It is one of the most common neurosurgical conditions in the United States today. SDH monitoring for hematoma expansion would be beneficial to enable expeditious surgical interven ... Read more

Scientist: Elisha Moses

A new software tool used for the removal of artifacts from transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) triggered electroencephalography (EEG) was developed by the group of Prof. Moses. The combined use of TMS with EEG allows for a unique measurement of the brain's global response to localized and abrupt stimulations. This ma ... Read more

Scientist: Eran Segal

The alarmingly sharp increase in type 1 diabetes mellitus incidence in recent years has been coupled with a marked rise in the development of closed-loop systems aimed at continuously monitoring blood glucose levels, predicting glucose behavior and delivering adjusted insulin doses. However, to date, these systems still ... Read more

Scientist: Lucio Frydman

A method to significantly shorten acquisition times of high-quality MRI images.Multidimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is used nowadays in many applications (e.g., discovery of new pharmaceutical drugs, characterization of new catalysts, and investigation of the structure and dynamics of proteins). One drawback ... Read more