Theme Leader:  Musculoskeletal Diseases

jacques.deguise@etsmtl.ca

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514 890-8000 ext. 25778

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514 412-7785

• Adjunct Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Montreal
• University of Montreal Marie-Lou and Yves Cotrel Montreal Research Chair in Orthopaedics
• Director, Imaging and Orthopaedics Research Laboratory (LIO), CRCHUM

Keywords
Medical imaging, 3D imaging, image processing, biplanar imaging, gemometric modeling, locomotor apparatus, vascular system, morpho-functional evaluation, computer-assisted medico-surgical acts, orthopedics, joints, vascular imaging, aneurisms, stenoses.

Research interests
Development and application of methods for imaging and modeling musculoskeletal and vascular systems, specifically applications of medical imaging, computer graphics, geometric modeling and morpho-functional evaluation of the locomotor and vascular systems. Computer-assisted medico-surgical acts. Movement analysis.

Targeted pathologies: scoliosis, spinal deformations, arthrosis and lesional trauma to the locomotor apparatus; aneurisms and stenoses

The Imaging and Orthopaedics Research Laboratory (LIO) is affiliated with the ÉTS and the research centres at the CHUM, Saint Justine Hospital et Sacré Coeur Hosptial. It brings together experts from several fields: engineers, computer scientists, physicists, surgeons, radiologists, rheumatologists, kinesiologists, and physical therapists.

Publications
Publications indexed on PubMed