Dr. Olivier Balédent

CHU Amiens Picardie, University Hospital
CHIMERE, Jules Verne Picardie University

Lecture Title: Neuroradiology of iNPH: beyond conventional images.

Olivier Balédent, PhD in biophysics and radiology, is currently Assistant Professor, Head of the Medical Image Processing Department at Amiens University Hospital (France), member of the CHIMERE research team and Director of the Preclinical Magnetic Resonance Department at Jules Verne University.

His background is in computer science. He received his PhD in 2001 from Jules Verne University, where he developed dedicated software to easily extract regions of interest from CSF and blood flows and quantify their dynamics using phase contrast MRI. In this way, he obtained new information on CSF and cerebral blood flow dynamics to describe the normal physiological dynamics of neurofluids in the cranio-spinal compartments of healthy populations. Together with clinicians, he has applied his MRI methodology to various pathologies such as hydrocephalus, intracranial hyperpressure, Alzheimer’s disease and Chiari malformation, in order to quantify the potential alteration of neurofluid pulsatility and reflect on its pathophysiology. Today, he continues to develop research on CSF and blood flow using real-time MRI to quantify the impact of respiration on neurofluid dynamics. He is also interested in the power of numerical simulations to model the cranio-spinal system.

In 2020, with colleagues he founded the Neurofluid Imaging Study Group within the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.