Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) 

Researchers involved: 

• PIs: Laurent Lamalle, Christophe Phillips, and Mohammed Bahri,  
• Postdocs: Mikhail Zubkov, Evgenios Kornaropoulos and Gregory Hammad

MRI data are at the chore of our activities within the Cyclotron Research Centre. Thanks to its 2 onsite MRI scanners, 3T Prisma & 7T Terra (Siemens), most of the data we deal with are acquired locally. 

The MRI Physics team includes Laurent Lamalle and Mikhail Zubkov. They focus on the development and optimization of advanced MRI acquisition sequences on both 3T and 7T machines, such as quantitative MRI (qMRI), Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST), Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) as well as specific function and diffusion-weighted MRI sequences. 

Research on the MRI data processing covers a broad field of topics: 

• Quantitative maps reconstruction for qMRI, CEST and QSM, plus their spatial processing and statistical analysis; 
• Modelling of diffusion weighted MRI, using ‘tensor models’, “Neurite Orientation Dispersion and Density Imaging” (aka. NODDI), and tractography; 
• Resting state fMRI and functional connectivity. 

These topics are mostly covered by Mohamed Bahri, Gregory Hammad, Evgenios Kornaropoulos, Christophe Phillips