Home > Great West

Presentation

FLI’s Grand Ouest hub is one of the three hubs integrated into the infrastructure on June1, 2020.

It comprises four imaging platforms located in Rennes, Nantes, Angers and Brest: NeurInfo (Imaging and Neuroinformatics Platform), PRISM (Multi-modal Imaging and Spectroscopy Research Platform), CIMA (Applied Multimodal Imaging Center), PLaTIMed (Platform for the Design and Evaluation of Medical Devices in Brest). Members of the Biogenouest network, these platforms are supervised by the University of Rennes, Nantes University, the University of Angers, INRAE and the University of Bretagne Occidentale. Imaging facilities open to academic and industrial research cover the full spectrum of in vivo imaging modalities, with the exception of optical imaging. This state-of-the-art equipment is combined with specific expertise.

For preclinical research, the hub has the following equipment:

– a 7T MRI located in Angers, a 4.7T MRI located in Rennes, dedicated to small animal imaging and spectroscopy, and a 1.5T MRI located in Rennes, for medium animal imaging (pig model), as well as two high-resolution NMR devices on the PRISM platform(https://www.pf-prism.org/les-equipements/).

– nuclear imaging equipment dedicated either to the average animal (miniature pig) – 1 PET-CT, 1 CT, and 2 gamma cameras on the PRISM platform(https://www.pf-prism.org/les-equipements/)– or to laboratory rodents, with a PET-MRI, a PET-CT and a unique 3-photon PET device at CIMA in Nantes(https://crci2na.univ-nantes.fr/en/research/cima). Both platforms also have radiopharmaceutical equipment for the synthesis of radiolabeled molecules.

– computed tomography devices(https://platimed.fr/)

Clinical research relies mainly on MRI and computational models implemented on the NeurInfo platform(https://www.neurinfo.org/). Neurinfo is equipped with a 3T MRI installed at Rennes University Hospital.

Key imaging expertise and know-how developed as part of FLI’s scientific activities

Thanks to these facilities, the Grand Ouest node has expertise in the following areas:

  • Quantification of physiological and metabolic parameters (perfusion, concentration of molecules of interest, body composition, receptor density) and other biomarkers (water diffusion, relaxation time, etc.) for preclinical applications in oncology and nutrition (PRISM platform),
  • Preclinical molecular imaging applied to immunology and oncology,
  • image processing and analysis in the context of oncology
  • tomographic image reconstruction
  • Neuroinformatics in the context of nervous system diseases,
  • Population imaging.

Preclinical and clinical imaging platforms / scientific managers :

Research laboratories supported by the node’s platforms :

Accessibilité

This site is registered on wpml.org as a development site. Switch to a production site key to remove this banner.