The "DRF Impulsion" project COSMIC was born from a joint report by astrophysics researchers (CosmoStat / Sap, J.-L. Starck) and medical imaging - (NeuroSpin / UNATI, Ph. Ciuciu) affirming that the data acquisition mechanism radio astronomy and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) have similarities, and that the same mathematical models could be used to reconstruct both radio-astronomy and human brain images.