Navigation & robotics

The LPR β prototype placed on a healthy subject at the MRI tunnel entrance during preclinical trials
LPR — needle-puncture robot for MRI · Prof. Cinquin, Prof. Bricault
Image-guided interventional cardiology in the cath lab
Interventional cardiology — intraoperative guidance · Prof. Barone-Rochette

After a background in medical image processing — relatively theoretical, algorithm-centred — my arrival at the TIMC laboratory marked a shift towards applied research in close contact with clinicians. It was this tight collaboration with surgeons and radiologists at the Grenoble Alpes University Hospital that naturally led me into navigation and robotics: not as an end in itself, but as a concrete answer to a need that practitioners were expressing clearly.

The LPR (Light Puncture Robot), co-designed with Prof. Philippe Cinquin and Prof. Ivan Bricault, grew out of that dialogue: a lightweight robot placed directly on the patient to guide needle insertion under MRI, where the radiologist’s hand simply cannot work alone. In interventional cardiology, it was with Prof. Gilles Barone-Rochette that we built an image-guidance system to bring the preoperative target directly into the operating room — a GPS for the catheter. In both cases, my role focused on software architecture, integration of image-processing components, team coordination, and driving the work through to clinical evaluation.

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