Partner 2: Commissariat a L´Energy Atomique - CEA
CEA participates here with two different groups:
1. Laboratory for Experimental Molecular Imaging - LIME
2. Laboratoire d’Electronique et de Technologie de l’Information - LETI
Partner Info:
CEA was created in 1945 and is a public research organisation with more than 16,000 researchers, engineers and other employees. Its mission is to develop know-how and assure the technological transfer in a large variety of applications such as in the areas of nuclear energy, biotechnology, environmental protection, microelectronics, optoelectronics and many others. CEA further advises government authorities and industrial partners. Part of the CEA’s technological transfer occurs through its subsidiary company AREVA. CEA is also committed to fundamental research in particle and nuclear physics, astrophysics, molecular and cellular biology, climatology, radiation-matter interaction, and condensed matter physics. A dedicated division, DTBS, with a staff of 130 people has been set up for developing X- and Gamma-ray imaging detectors, the associated electronics and the modelling, simulation and data processing techniques necessary to their development, X- ray tomographic systems and dual energy systems and optical imaging technology applications in the field of medical diagnostics and health care.
Bertrand Tavitian is the head of LIME of the Biomedical Imaging Institute of the CEA, and the head of Inserm-CEA research Unit 803 for In vivo imaging of gene expression. Located near Paris in the Service hospitalier Frédéric Joliot in Orsay, the LIME has a staff of 50 and occupies 500 square meters housing chemistry, molecular and cellular biology and animal facilities together with the major facilities for Molecular Imaging: a 7-line cyclotron, 15 radiochemical hoods, 4 PET cameras including a small animal FOCUS PET, 4 SPECT cameras including a small animal SPECT-CT, a micro-CT and 4 small animal optical imaging systems including the TomoFluo3D from the LETI. The LIME is an active partner of 11 national and 6 European research networks and coordinates the FP6 Network of excellence EMIL (European Molecular Imaging Laboratories), the Paris canceropole multimodality cancer imaging programme, and the French national platform for Imaging in Experimental Oncology (ICE).
LETI is a CEA laboratory located in Grenoble which is one of the main European applied research centres in electronics. More than 85% of its activity is devoted to research that is conducted with outside partners. Leti is partner to the industrial world, with 200 collaborators and 350 contracts a yearand has led to the creation of almost 30 start-ups in high-technology, including Soitec, the world leader in Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI). Leti is endowed with an annual budget of 174 M€ and employs more than 1,000 people with, in addition, more than 500 external collaborators (postgraduates, research partners and industrialists).
A dedicated division, Département Technologie pour la Biologie et la Santé (DTBS), with a staff of 130 people, has been set up for instruments and imaging technology applications in the field of medical diagnostics and health care. From the feasibility study to operational industrial prototype, LETI/DTBS conclude about forty contracts each year and fills approximately thirty patents. The department’s skills extend from sensor physics to system integration, it encompasses sensors design, integrated circuits development, information processing algorithms and embedded software development. Among others, LETI/DTBS is in charge of research and developments in the following fields: Optical and in vivo fluorescence imaging technology, X-ray and Gamma-ray imaging detectors, Instruments and targeted biological probes for fluorescence optical molecular imaging, Associated microsystems, Instruments and data processing for applications in the field of biology, in vivo and in vitro diagnosis.
For further information, please visit http://www-leti.cea.fr