3. Industrial issues

Medical imaging is therefore part of a transdisciplinary and translational context, bringing together researchers, engineers and doctors, and posing a challenge for industry to effectively transfer knowledge and technology, while respecting the regulations inherent in medical devices. The stakes are as follows:

• respond appropriately to the clinical problem posed, or in other words, articulate the technologies so that they can be used in the context that has been defined;

• differentiate from the competition or from what already exists in order to enhance a product or create value;

• create a controlled technological heritage (intellectual and industrial property) ;

• comply with the regulatory aspects of medical devices, including the ability to...