November 20, 2023  – Ethics Committee approval for 3D MR spirometry in adults at standard magnetic field – The Ethics Committee Ouest VI approved the substantial modifications (populations and sites) that had been added to the gb-Spiro3D protocol in order to include all French hospitals participating in the V|LF-Spiro3D project:…

January 30, 2024 – Seminar – Part 1 – Basic biomechanics or mechanobiology in lung function Martin Genet (IPP) brightly kicked off the series of scientific dissemination seminars at BioMaps (UPSaclay) this week on January 30th, with basics of mechanics. Continuous medium, displacement, strain, force, stress, equilibrium, behaviour and loading were covered. They all support…

December 12, 2023 – 3D MR spirometry at stake at Foch Hospital A special joint staff meeting was organized by the Pulmonology and Radiology departments at Foch Hospital to introduce the basics and the state of 3D MR Spirometry. Xavier Maître (UPSaclay) went through the workflow of the technique, from 3D lung dynamic…

First patient interview WP4-1 Progress report A pilot interview about patient experiences during the 3D MRI spirometry protocol was conducted by the social humanistic study group on October 30, 2023 (preliminary phase of WP4-1 “Social humanistic study”). Why interviewing patients about their experience? The goal of interviewing patients following their MRI…

November 23, 2023 – A lighthouse project in CEA exploratory program – V|LF-Spiro3D was originally supported as an exploratory program (PE) by CEA to conduct the first clinical research protocol g-Spiro3D on 25 healthy volunteers, freely breathing while lying supine or prone in the MRI. On November 21-23, 2023, Xavier…

First results presented at ISMRM 2023 – Toronto V|LF-Spiro3D at ISMRM!In June 2023, during the annual ISMRM congress in Toronto, Nathalie Barrau from Université Paris-Saclay presented some project results. Specifically, she provided a talk about nominal patterns of the respiratory dynamics in healthy volunteers. Dissemination of research results is a key in the Horizon Europe framework…

First poster presented at a ESMRMB 2023 – Basel At European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB) 2023 in Basel, a first poster and a lightning talk on initial V|LF-Spiro3D results were presented to other researchers in the field. The topic was « Human respiratory adaptation to position…

V|LF-Spiro3D Consortium Meeting: paving the way forward On October 16th, 2023, the V|LF-Spiro3D project held a pivotal consortium meeting and Scientific Leader Assembly (SLA). The event, held in a hybrid format, combined in-person presence at Université Paris-Saclay notably at BioMaps lab, with remote participation via Zoom video call for all…

Images acquired on a 1.5 T Siemens Healthineers MR system First V|LF-Spiro3D in vivo images acquired on a 1.5 T Siemens Healthineers MR system Paris, August 30th, 2023 – Following the transfer of the Spiro 3D framework from GE Healthcare to Siemens Healthineers MR systems, we are pleased to announce that the first in vivo images…

Peder Larson, an esteemed expert in Advanced Imaging Technologies from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), showed advanced MRI techniques at UPSaclay. Larson was involved from the beginning in the initial developments of 3D MR spirometry and his research has been pivotal in the development of V|LF-Spiro3D.