​Its missions

• Coordinate at the national level in vivo research activities in imaging and unite skills to overcome current technological barriers, directing efforts at: contrast agents and diagnostic biomarkers, processing of images, instrumentation and technological innovation, interventional imaging and therapy technologies guided by imaging
• Provide  scientists, academics, and industry the access to a complete range of imaging technologies (150 imaging systems) and integrated, standardized high-quality systems 
• Offer trainings associated with imaging platforms

Organisation

Coordinated byJacques Bittoun, director of the "UMR BioMaps" and head of the "Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot", assisted by an operational manager (Régine Trebossen), FLI is divided into 6 regional nodes: Bordeaux, Grenoble, Lyon, Marseille, Paris Center and Paris Sud. The CEA contributes to the node Paris Sud through the participation of the Frédéric Joliot Institute for Life Sciences and the institute of biology François Jacob (MIRCen). An additional cross-sectional node is devoted to data management and analysis. FLI organizes its research according to 4 axes: imaging agents, instrumentation, image processing, interventional imaging.

The Frédéric Joliot Institute for Life Sciences and FLI

 Research Teams and platforms of the SHFJ and NeuroSpin are involved in FLI. They provide expertise in the following areas:

• Technological innovation in instrumentation, particularly for high-field MRI
• Multimodal imaging (PET, MRI) and its applications
• Management and processing of information (images, biological and genetic information)
• Imaging agents (marking of the macromolecules)
• Interventional imaging (ultrasonic treatments under MRI)