Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Contracts with Industry

Siemens

duration: 5 years from 2011/10/26

In the context of the Neurinfo imaging platform, a partnership between Siemens SAS - Healthcare and University of Rennes 1 was signed in October 2011 for 5 years. This contract defines the terms of the collaboration between Siemens and the Neurinfo platform. The Neurinfo platform 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. This a major advance in the collaboration since it will enable the development of MRI sequences on site.

TransIRMf project

Participants : Christian Barillot, Jean-Yves Gauvrit, Jean-Christophe Ferré, Elise Bannier, Camille Maumet, Isabelle Corouge.

duration : 24 months, from 01/10/2010

The objective of this project is to set up and validate acquisition and data processing pipelines for metabolic and functional MRI. Acquition techniques comprise innovative block design and event related paradigms based on various stimuli (visual, auditive) and use various MRI sequences (BOLD, ASL). Paradigms were selected to cover a large scope of potential applications. The protocol imaging namely includes a BOLD fMRI resting state paradigm, an n-back working memory paradigm for BOLD fMRI, as well as and for the first time, for functional ASL. An emotional prosody recognition task was implemented, also for the first time, in an event related BOLD fRMI context. Data were acquired on 30 healthy subjects. Processing of these data is in progress based on inhouse pipelines (e.g., template construction using DARTEL, PVE correction for ASL data). This grant was awarded in collaboration with Biotrial within the CRITT-Santé Bretagne program.