Denis Le Bihan

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Denis Le Bihan (born July 30, 1957 in Nanterre ) is a French neuroscientist , radiologist and biophysicist .

Life

Le Bihan studied human biology, computer science and medicine at the University of Paris VI with a degree in medicine in 1984 (specialist in radiology 1987) and physics at the University of Paris XI (laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique) with a doctorate in physics in 1987. In the same year 1987 went he went to the National Institutes of Health , where he worked on imaging procedures (such as magnetic resonance imaging , MRI) for the brain. In 1994 he returned to France to the Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot of the CEA in Orsay . From 1999 to 2006 he was director of the laboratory for anatomical and functional neuroimaging. In 2007 he founded NeuroSpin at the CEA in Saclay and became its director. There he developed MRT procedures with very high magnetic fields.

From 2005 to 2006 and from 2008 to 2009 he was visiting professor at the University of Kyoto .

In the 1980s, Le Bihan played a key role in the development of diffusion-weighted MRI in vivo, which later became established in stroke diagnosis, among other things , but is also used in cancer diagnostics and in the investigation of other neuronal diseases. In the 1990s he worked on the introduction of diffusion tensor imaging in vivo; this method can also be used to create three-dimensional maps of connections between neurons in the brain. He had the idea of ​​capturing the diffusion movement of molecules with MRI already during his studies.

Awards

In 2014 he received the Louis Jeantet Prize , in 2012 the Prix Honda and in 2002 the Richard Lounsbery Award . In 1999 he became a corresponding and in 2003 full member of the Academie des Sciences , is a member of the Academie des technologies and since 2002 of the Academia Europaea . He is a knight of the Ordre national du Mérite .

Fonts

  • Imagerie par Résonance Magnétique: Bases Physiques. Masson, Paris, 1984.
  • Editor: Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Diffusion and Perfusion: Applications to Functional Imaging. Lippincott-Raven Press, New York, 1995.
  • Looking into the functional architecture of the brain with diffusion MRI, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Volume 4, 2003, s. 469-480

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Recognition of the Louis Jeantet Prize 2014
personal data
SURNAME Le Bihan, Denis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French neuroscientist, radiologist and biophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Nanterre