{"id":1317,"date":"2010-10-05T14:16:21","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T18:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2010-10-05T14:16:21","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T18:16:21","slug":"small-business-grant-awarded-for-cargo-x-ray-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=1317","title":{"rendered":"Small Business Grant Awarded for Cargo X-Ray System"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1320\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1320\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/CargoShip_CMTSgov.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1320\" title=\"CargoShip_CMTSgov\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/CargoShip_CMTSgov.jpg\" alt=\"Cargo ship (CMTS.gov)\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/CargoShip_CMTSgov.jpg 200w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/CargoShip_CMTSgov-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(CMTS.gov)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.accuray.com\/\">Accuray Incorporated<\/a>, a developer of X-ray technology for robotic surgery in Sunnyvale, California, received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the Department of Homeland Security to adapt the company&#8217;s high-energy X-ray technology for cargo scanning and inspection.<\/p>\n<p>The grant, valued at $1 million, will fund development of a compact X-ray source bundled with a high-energy linear accelerator. Accuray received an earlier Homeland Security SBIR grant to design components for a prototype of this system. This grant will fund development of the prototype system itself.<\/p>\n<p>The Accuray prototype will include the company&#8217;s linear accelerator system, which in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiologyinfo.org\/en\/info.cfm?pg=linac\">medical applications<\/a>, uses microwaves to detect and treat cancerous tumors.\u00a0 The project is scheduled to be completed in two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accuray Incorporated, a developer of X-ray technology for robotic surgery in Sunnyvale, California, received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the Department of Homeland Security to adapt the company&#8217;s high-energy X-ray technology for cargo scanning and inspection. The grant, valued at $1 million, will fund development of a compact X-ray source bundled with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[38,105,41],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","tag-grant","tag-physical-sciences","tag-robotics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1321,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions\/1321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}