Research director (DR2 Inserm)
Co-director of IADI
IADI (U1254) – CIC-IT
Bâtiment Recherche IRIS
CHRU de Nancy Brabois, Rue du Morvan
54511 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy
France
E-mail: freddy.odille<AT>inserm.fr
Biography
Freddy Odille holds a degree in electrical engineering from ENSEM (2003) and a Ph.D. in control theory and signal processing from Henri Poincaré University in Nancy (2007). From 2007 to 2010, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at University College London (UK). He has been an Inserm researcher since 2011 and was promoted to Research Director (DR2) in 2023. In 2017, he obtained his HDR from the University of Lorraine. Since 2024, he has co-directed the IADI laboratory. In addition to his research work, he is a member of CIC-IT 1433 in Nancy, with the aim of translating research findings into clinical applications.
His research focuses on the development of new imaging and biomedical engineering technologies, particularly in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). His main contributions relate to image reconstruction (motion correction, super-resolution), MRI-based electrical conductivity imaging, and the analysis of electrophysiological signals (interventional cardiac catheterization, ExG signal analysis) for applications in cardiac and abdominal imaging. He has supervised 15 doctoral students and is the author of 95 scientific articles, 5 patents, and 2 software programs licensed to industry.
Main projects
• 2023-29: Co-leader of the imaging workpackage of IHU INFINY (5+5 M€) and RHU I-DEAL (6.7 M€) on Crohn’s disease. https://ihu-nancy.org/
• 2023-27: Principal investigator of ANR PRCE project SWEETHEART (Screening of women using magnetic resonance and electronic textiles for heart disease), 800 k€. Collaborators: IADI, Epsidy (Nancy), Healtis (Nancy), GEMTEX (Roubaix), LIRYC (Bordeaux)
.• 2021-25: Principal investigator of ANR PRCE project ELECTRA (Electrical property imaging by MRI: Application to the MR-safety of medical devices), 733 k€. Collaborators: IADI, CIC-IT (Nancy), Healtis (Nancy), ICUBE (Strasbourg), LMR (Reims).
• 2021-25: Leader of IADI in ANR PRC project MOSAR (Advanced Control of Head MOtion and Specific Absorption Rate to Leverage the Potential of 7 Tesla MRI for Pediatric Neuroimaging), 416 k€. Collaborators: Institut F. Joliot (Orsay, coordinateur), IADI.
• 2017-21: WP dleader of ANR PRCI project BraCoil (Smart bra-shaped MRI breast coil). Collaborators : IADI (coordinateur), IR4M (Orsay), Université de Vienne (Autriche).
• 2016-21: Co-WP -leader of ANR RHU project FIGHT-HT (Fighting Heart Failure). Main collaborators: CIC-P (coordinateur), IADI, CIC-IT (Nancy), Schiller Médical France (Wissembourg).
Expertise and membership
• 2022-present : Elected member of Inserm scientific panel on healthcare technologies(CSS 7)
• 2015-21 : Board member of the French society of magnetic resonance in biology and medicine (SFRMBM).
• Reviewer for MRM, IEEE TMI… (>110 articles, certified by publons.com)
Selected publications
1. He Z, Soullié P, Lefebvre PM, Ambarki K, Felblinger J and Odille F. Changes of in vivo electrical conductivity in the brain and torso related to age, fat fraction and sex using MRI. Scientific Reports, 2024; 14:16109. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-67014-9
2. He Z, Lefebvre PM, Soullié P, Doguet M, Ambarki K, Chen B, Odille F. Phantom evaluation of electrical conductivity mapping by MRI: Comparison to vector network analyzer measurements and spatial resolution assessment. Magn Reson Med. 2024 Jan;91:2374–2390. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.30009
3. Odille F, Battaglia A, Hoyland P, Sellal JM, Voilliot D, De Chillou C, Felblinger J. Catheter treatment of ventricular tachycardia: a reference-less pace-mapping method to identify ablation targets. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2019 Nov;66(11):3278-3287.https://doi.org/10.1109/tbme.2019.2903631
4. Odille F, Vuissoz PA, Marie PY, Felblinger J. Generalized reconstruction by inversion of coupled systems (GRICS) applied to free-breathing MRI. Magn Reson Med. 2008 Jul;60(1):146-57. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.21623
Software
Motion correction in MRI
The code below is the practical tutorial associated with the book chapter:
Odille F. Chapter 13 – Motion-Corrected Reconstruction. In M. Doneva, M. Akcakaya & C. Prieto (Eds.), Magnetic Resonance Image Reconstruction: Theory, Methods, and Application (1st ed., pp. 355-389). Elsevier, ISBN: 9780128227268. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822726-8.00024-5