Siemens

In the context of the Neurinfo imaging platform, a master research agreement between Siemens SAS - Healthcare and University of Rennes 1 was signed in October 2011 for 5 years and renewed in 2016. This contract defines the terms of the collaboration between Siemens, Visages and the Neurinfo platform. From this research agreement contract, Neurinfo has received work in progress (WIP) sequences from Siemens in the form of object code for evaluation in the context of clinical research. The Neurinfo platform has also received source code of selected MRI sequences. As an example, the diffusion sequence code was modified to load arbitrary diffusion gradient waveforms for the FastMicroDiff project led by E. Caruyer. This is crucial in the collaboration since it enables the development of MRI sequences on site. Siemens currently provides research resources through the funding of a PhD student (Cédric Meurée: CIFRE Inria / Siemens grant).