April 4-5, 2024 – Consortium Meeting in Paris – Day 1 On April 4th and 5th, 3D MR Spirometry research resonated in Paris with the first physical meeting of the V|LF-Spiro3D Consortium, hosted in Paris. This ambitious European project, involving 10 partners from 4 different countries, brought together over 40 experts…

February 27, 2024 – Seminar – Part 2 – Lung biomechanical modelling – Martin Genet (IPP) gently but surely used the biomechanical toolbox he had opened a month before with a set of basic biomechanics or mechanobiology. Poroelasticity was introduced to model the lung parenchyma, where gas pores are embedded…

March 1, 2024 – Low-field on the move at Aberdeen – Najat Salameh‘s vision of low-field MRI was revealed to members of the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Aberdeen. The sky was clear blue outside the seven-story IMS tower, with a beautiful view of the North Sea between the Dee…

Newsletter #1 The V|LF-Spiro3D project is almost a year, a quarter of its expected duration. What has happened in recent months? What goals have been achieved and what are the next steps? Are there new people within the organizations working on the project? Let’s find out! Project Progress WP1: The Erasmus team…

January 16, 2024 – Jessica Oakes visiting INRIA and University Paris-Saclay – Jessica Oakes, Associate Professor of Bioengineering, presented at BioMaps (UPSaclay) an impressive amount of research work she carries out at the Northeastern University, Boston, in the Respiratory Innovation and Simulation Team.  It deals with airflow, transport and deposition in…

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…