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Spinoff story
LED Device Illuminates New Path to Healing
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
Quantum Devices Inc., of Barneveld, Wisconsin, was granted a NASA SBIR contract to develop an LED light source for use in a surgical environment. Several SBIR contracts from Marshall Space Flight Center helped develop the High Emissivity Aluminiferous Light-emitting Substrate (HEALS), then successfully applied in cases of pediatric brain tumors and the prevention of oral mucositis in pediatric bone marrow transplant patients. The HEALS and subsequent WARP 10 technologies have won many awards, including a Tibbets Award." Recently, the next-generation device the WARP 75.