November 26, 2024 – First COPD patient at La Pitié On November 26th, 2024, La Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital marked a significant milestone with the first successful use of the 3D Spiro sequence in MRI for a patient with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). The patient’s day began at 9 a.m. with an MRI…

December 18, 2024 – Newsletter #2 Over the past few months, the V|LF-Spiro3D project has achieved significant milestones across various Work Packages. From advancing data collection and launching new recruitments to submitting key scientific contributions, the project continues to make strides in understanding and visualizing breathing dynamics. WP1 The ADVANCER…

December 11, 2024 – Round Table at France Life Imaging Created in 2012 thanks to the Investments for the Future program (Programme des Investissements d’Avenir), France Life Imaging (FLI) is a harmonized imaging network for biomedical research giving access to innovative or even unique imaging equipment systems and to a methodological expertise…

November 28, 2024 – Seminar 10 – The physics of low-field MRI regimes On November 28th, V|LF-Spiro3D hosted the 10th dissemination seminar at BioMaps (UPSaclay) and online, featuring an in-depth presentation by Luc Durrasse on the evolving low-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The event shed light on the opportunities and…

November 26, 2024 – Seminar 9 – Rethinking work travels V|LF-Spiro3D project hosted its 9th dissemination seminar “Rethinking work travels”  The phenomenon of climate change is a well-established scientific fact. In order to achieve a net zero emissions target, it is necessary to reduce emissions in all areas, including those…

November 25th, 2024 – Irene Groenevelt – Post doctoral researcher at Tilburg University Hi! My name is Irene Groenevelt, and I am a postdoc at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. I am trained as a cultural anthropologist, and in Tilburg I am part of a research team that explores health practices from…

October 5th, 2024 – V|LF-Spiro3D at ESMRMB 2024 in Barcelona – On October 2-5, Ithar Gharmaoui, a PhD student at the BioMaps laboratory (University of Paris-Saclay), presented a poster at the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB) 2024 conference in Barcelona. In the « Image Analysis and Segmentation »…

November 12th, 2024 – Ithar Gharmaoui and Adrien Duwat at JSPFI-IWPFI 2024 – Japan V|LF-Spiro3D at the International Conference on Pulmonary Functional Imaging in Japan: Advancing Lung Function Assessment From August 23 to 25, V|LF-Spiro3D participated in the 15th Joint Meeting of the Japanese Society of Pulmonary Functional Imaging and the…

November 8th, 2024 – Ithar Gharmaoui, PhD student at UPSaclay Hi! I am Ithar, a PhD student at the Multimodal Biomedical Imaging Laboratory (BioMaps) at Paris-Saclay University in France.  My academic journey began with a deep passion for applying physics to the medical field. After studying medical physics, I obtained…

November 6th, 2024 – Nicholas Senn, Post doctoral researcher at AMT Hello, I am Nicholas Senn, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Aberdeen working on Work Package 3 of the V|LF-Spiro3D project.  In April 2024 I joined the AMT Center to work on developing 3D MR spirometry at field strengths of…