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Seminar 5 – Imag(en)ing the interior body
Tuesday, 28 May 2024 – Seminar 5 – Imag(en)ing the interior body – Jenny Slatman
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Seminar 4 – Human ventilatory activity
April 30, 2024 – Seminar 4 – Human ventilatory activity – Thomas Similowski
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V|LF-Spiro3D at ISMRM 2024 in Singapore
At the ISMRM 2024 in Singapore, Anna Reitmann and Adrien Duwat (UPSaclay) presented their research on MRI sequences and mechanical lung elongations
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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
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V|LF-Spiro3D in Paris Day 2
The first in-person consortium meeting took place in Paris on April 4-5. Discover what happened on the second day.
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Immersive and pedagogical sensitive theater
The first day of the V|LF-Spiro3D consortium meeting unfolded with an immersive exploration into the realm of medical imaging and breathing
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V|LF-Spiro3D in Paris Day 1
The first in-person consortium meeting took place in Paris on April 4-5. Discover what happened on the first day.
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New recruit in Aberdeen!
Nicholas Senn joined AMT as a post-doctorial fellow. He will be a great support for the project.
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Dissemination seminar 3
Lionel Broche (AMT) presented the ongoing clinical trials where magnetic field is swept to achieve optimal contrasts
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FCI system: commissionning
The new Field-Cycling Imager (FCI) being constructed at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary has produced its first images
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IABM 2024
PhD students from Université Paris-Saclay presented their first results concerning a multiclass automatic segmentation method
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BioMaps annual seminar
Ithar Gharmaoui, Anna Reitmann and Adrien Duwat (UPSaclay) presented their first results for 3D MR spirometry
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Sequence implementation
Different MR pusle sequences and reconstruction techniques were tested on healthy volunteers at Foch Hospital
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VLF whole-body scanner installation in Aberdeen
The AMT team was happy to start re-installing their very low-field MRI whole-body scanner in Aberdeen
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Dissemination seminar 2
Martin Genet (IPP) gently but surely used the biomechanical toolbox he had opened a month before
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Low-field on the move
On March 1, Najat Salameh’s vision of low-field MRI was revealed to members of the Institute of Medical Sciences
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Inclusion of asthma and COPD patients
The inclusion of patients with asthma and COPD is crucial, as our aim is to study the sensitivity of 3D MR spirometry to respiratory pathologies
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SPIE Medical Imaging
Presentation on MRI data postprocessing at the SPIE Medical Imaging conference, in San Diego, USA, by Catalin Fetita (IPP)
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Newsletter #1
The V|LF-Spiro3D project is almost a year, a quarter of its expected duration. What has happened in recent months?
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Jessica Oakes
Jessica Oakes, Associate Professor of Bioengineering, presented at BioMaps (UPSaclay) an impressive amount of research work
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Ethics Approval
The Ethics Committee Ouest VI approved the substantial modifications added to the gb-Spiro3D protocol
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Dissemination seminar 1
Martin Genet (IPP) brightly kicked off the series of scientific dissemination seminars at BioMaps (UPSaclay)
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Dissemination Foch
A special joint staff meeting was organized by the Pulmonology and Radiology departments of Foch Hospital
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First patient interview
A pilot interview about patient experiences during the 3D MRI spirometry protocol was conducted
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CEA - Grenoble
On November 21-23, 2023, Xavier Maître was invited to present the preliminary oucomes and prespectives
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ISMRM 2023
V|LF-Spiro3D at ISMRM!
In June 2023, during the annual ISMRM congress in Toronto
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ESMRMB 2023
At European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB) 2023 in Basel
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Consortiun Meeting
October 16th, 2023 – V|LF-Spiro3D project held a consortium meeting and Scientific Leader Assembly (SLA).
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First in-vivo images
First V|LF-Spiro3D in vivo images acquired on a 1.5 T Siemens Healthineers MR system
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Peder Larson
Peder Larson, an esteemed expert in Advanced Imaging Technologies
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First inclusion
The first healthy volunteer was included at UPSaclay
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Kick-off meeting
The Kick-Off meeting was organized by UPSaclay (the project coordinator)
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