Satt Sud-Est has licensed technology relating to metamaterial-based antennae for very powerful MRI scanners to Multiwave Innovation.
Satt Sud-Est, a regional tech transfer office for institutions in the southeast of France, licensed antennae technology to Multiwave Innovation, which designs antennae for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners, on Tuesday.
The licence relates to metamaterial-based radio frequency antennae for ultra-high field MRI scanners. These scanners boast up to 7 Tesla – which refers to the strength of the magnetic field they can generate and which equals 140,000 the strength of the Earth’s magnetic field.
The metamaterials-based antennae, developed at the Fresnel Institute, are patented by Aix-Marseille University, École Centrale de Marseille, science agency French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA).
The project was supported by Carnot Star Institute and France Life Imaging.
The maturation program was undertaken by Satt Sud-Est in partnership with Multiwave Innovation and Fresnel researchers Redha Abdeddaim, associate professor at Aix-Marseille University, Stefan Enoch, research director at CNRS and director of the Fresnel Institute.
The antenna is expected to tap into the higher spatial and temporal resolutions that an ultra-high field scanner offers, which enables the detection of conditions such as Parkinson’s disease.
