Since 2013, FLI’s Expertise Network 2, RE2, has granted financial support to 57 expertise exchange projects, including 16 since 2021, amounting to €629k. The average grant is €21,000. These grants have been awarded to 31 different laboratories. Of the current projects, every exchange, with the exception of one, involves at least 2 hubs. Four (4) exchanges involve 3 hubs and 1 exchange 4 hubs. Finally, 2 projects at the interface with BR1 and BR4 have received financial support from each of the networks. Thirteen (13) projects are in the field of MRI, 2 in US, 1 in MEG, 1 in PET, 1 in acousto-optics and 1 mixed US-MR project. Four (4) projects focus on protocol robustness and safety issues in ultra-high-field MRI, 6 on the development of MRI biomarkers (MS, lipid content, brain oxygenation, heart transplant viability, high-resolution multiparametric imaging, free-surface fMRI), 3 on miniature MRI coils that can be deployed intracardially or implanted in the brain (non-exhaustive list). Five projects propose new methods or disruptive concepts: in-vivo acousto-optics, wireless implantable US transducer arrays, anisotropic/non-linear elastography by MR or US, MEG with laser-pumped magnetometers.
