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 the technique.
She has made it robust enough to be applied to the clinical research protocols initiated by the project. She has also carried out the first clinical research protocol with 25 healthy volunteers and demonstrated the expected lung gravity-dependence.
The interdisciplinarity of her work was easily recognised by the diversity of the jury: Bruno Madore (Harvard Medical School, Boston), Elise Bannier (EMPENN, Rennes), Nadjia Kachenoura (LIB, Paris), Luisa Ciobanu (NeuroSpin, Saclay), Hélène Salvator (Foch Hospital, Suresnes), whose expertise ranges from pulmonology to fundamental MR physics, image reconstruction and processing.
The scientific appeal of the topic was enhanced by the human qualities that Nathalie has shown and shared during her years as a PhD student at UPSaclay. Food and gifts were generous and numerous.
