July 8, 2024 – Setting up clinical research protocols at Pitié-Salpêtrière and Bicêtre Hospitals Two set-up visits in one day! At 1 pm, UPSaclay and APHP met at the Cardiovascular and Thoracic Imaging Department to initiate the clinical research protocol on volunteers with moderate and severe COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)…

July 11-12 2024 – Breathing fresh air at Joliot Summer seminar The Frédéric Joliot Institute of Life Sciences at the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) carries out original research in the fields of integrative cell biology, biomedical imaging and diagnostic and therapeutic innovation. Each year, a two-day seminar highlights the…

V|LF-Spiro3D art-science at the core of digital health sector A colloquium on global health and local decisions. The French government’s digital transformation initiative aims to create a digital health sector to consolidate all the experience gained from digital innovation, to accelerate and improve the uptake of digital technologies by citizens, patients and…

June 27, 2024 – Dr Nathalie Barrau with flying colours A bright and colourful defence on 3D MR Spirometry! Nathalie Barrau began her doctorate by following in the footsteps of Tanguy Boucneau’s pioneering work on 3D MR spirometry. In just a few years, she has established the reliability and reproducibility of…

June 27, 2024 – Seminar 6 – Synthetic and augmented MRI – Bruno Madore Following Nathalie Barrau’s morning PhD defence that he reviewed and examined, Bruno Madore opened in the afternoon the door to future MRI. It may be synthetic or sensor-aided, future MRI will be augmented by the ruling…

Tuesday, 28 May 2024 – Seminar 5 – Imag(en)ing the interior body – Jenny Slatman – Following a transdisciplinary approach, Jenny Slatman (Tilburg) wondered around imaging and imagining the inner self. Following an original participative approach, she raised and addressed many questions. What happens when medical images travel outside the…

April 30, 2024 – Seminar 4 – Human ventilatory activity – Thomas Similowski – Far from the usual common sense, it seems that we do not like tranquillity. Breathing needs to be reconsidered along a continuously challenged mechanism. We are prone to sigh from time to time to make sure…

May 9, 2024 – V|LF-Spiro3D at ISMRM 2024 in Singapore! – At the ISMRM 2024 annual conference in Singapore, Anna Reitmann and Adrien Duwat (UPSaclay) presented their research on MRI sequences and mechanical lung elongations. They engaged with fellow researchers, exchanging insights and ideas for future developments.  One of the highlights of the Congress…

April 4, 2024 – 3D MR Spirometry workshops at BioMaps – During the Paris consortium meeting, groups of five to ten people were invited to participate in four workshops at BioMaps (UPSaclay) to cover 3D MR spirometry at large. First, Adrien Duwat and Georges Willoquet presented the second prototype of the MR-compatible spirometer they are currently developing…

March 28, 2024 – First lung image acquired from FCI system – The new Field-Cycling Imager (FCI) being constructed at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary has produced its first images, including heart and lungs. These were obtained during its commissionning, which is still under way. More improvements are expected after the rest…