FollowKnee : Mixed Reality as a tool for knee surgery

FollowKnee is one of the ten University-Hospital Research projects selected at the end of 2017 by the French government, as part of the “Investissements d’Avenir” (Investments for the future) program. The purpose of this e-health project is to develop a connected knee prosthesis designed to improve the follow-up of patients. The FollowKnee project with a duration of 5 years provides concrete solutions at each stage of the process: improving the design, manufacturing, installation and the personalized follow-up of implanted prostheses.

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Missions

FollowKnee was conceived to revolutionize knee related treatment and the overall care of the patient, ahead of the operation all the way to its post-operative follow-up. As a project partner, Immersion’s role is to study, design and produce the Mixed Reality experience that will help surgeons in the operating room to optimize the implementation of this innovative prosthesis.

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Duration: 5 years
Date de début: January 2018
Overall budget: 24,5 million euros
Financing entities: RHU / Investissement d’Avenir / AN

Partners

The LaTIM*, under the management of its director, professor Eric Stindel, coordinator of the projet
SLS (private company)
CEA Grenoble
Immersion
Imascap
b<>com
ID2Santé

*LaTIM : laboratory serving as interface between the University of Western Brittany (UBO), the Institut Mines-Telecom Atlantique (IMTA), INSERM and the University Hospital of Brest

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