Mika Teräs
Professor, UTU and Chief Physicist TUH
Areas of expertise
Medical Physics; Nuclear Medicine; PET Methodology
Medical Physics; Nuclear Medicine; PET Methodology
Research
Research activities have
concentrated to the growing area of PET methodology including engineering,
physical aspects as well as modelling.
Recently, imaging is
moving towards multimodality imaging and Turku PET Centre is one of the best environments to perform research of my interest.
Within almost 30 years I have good collaboration to several research institutes research groups as well as with major PET instrumentation manufacurers.
Teaching
My philosophy has always based on interaction with
students and to start teaching from the basics with a lot of real-life examples
so that it is easy to follow. In addition I give guidance to deeper
understanding and advice on where to find more information. This is why I chose
a career in applied physics. As being a link between university researches, new
features from manufacturers and clinical applications my aim is to get new
techniques for the benefit of patients
My medical physics teaching started with 3 years Physics assistent in biomedical department the main responsibility was physics laboratory work with first year medical students.
During my hospital career I have been teaching and
still give courses on medical physics at the Turku University of applied
sciences (TUAS), faculty of health care (former nursery school). I am
frequently asked to give talks in national and international meetings and I am peer-reviewing
2-3 articles annually for international Journals and review abstracts for
several congresses (NACP and EANM).
My philosophy has always based on interaction with
students and to start teaching from the basics with a lot of real-life examples
so that it is easy to follow. In addition I give guidance to deeper
understanding and advice on where to find more information. This is why I chose
a career in applied physics. As being a link between university researches, new
features from manufacturers and clinical applications my aim is to get new
techniques for the benefit of patients
Publications 
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- Performance of an image-based motion compensation algorithm for the HRRT: A striatum-phantom study with true motion (2016) 2016 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Room-Temperature Semiconductor Detector Workshop (NSS/MIC/RTSD) Jarkko Johansson, Sune Keller, Jouni Tuisku, Mika Teräs
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Tissue Probability-Based Attenuation Correction for Brain PET/MR by Using SPM8 (2016)
- IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Absorption, distribution and excretion of intravenously injected 68Ge/68Ga generator eluate in healthy rats, and estimation of human radiation dosimetry (2015)
- EJNMMI Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A New Algorithm for Segmentation of Cardiac Quiescent Phases and Cardiac Time Intervals Using Seismocardiography (2015) Mojtaba Jafari Tadi, Tero Koivisto, Mikko Pänkäälä, Timo Knuutila, Mika Teräs, Pekka Hänninen, Ari Paasio,
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - A novel respiratory gating method for oncologic positron emission tomography based on bioimpedance approach (2015)
- Annals of Nuclear Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A PET/MR Compatible Device for Production of Radiowater (2015) 2014 NSS/MIC Conference Record Sipila HT, Haaslahti V, Saunavaara V, Teräs M
(Other publication) - Cardiac remodeling in a new pig model of chronic heart failure: Assessment of left ventricular functional, metabolic, and structural changes using PET, CT, and echocardiography (2015)
- Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Comparison of Single-Scatter Simulation and Monte Carlo Single-Scatter Simulation on Philips Ingenuity TF PET/MR (2015) 2014 NSS/MIC Conference Record Jarmo Teuho, Jarkko Johansson, Mika Teräs
(Other publication) - Development of Motion Correction Methods for Cardiac PET Imaging (2015)
- European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
(Other publication) - [F-18]FDG Accumulation in Early Coronary Atherosclerotic Lesions in Pigs (2015)
- PLoS ONE
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Long-term stability of the MR system of the Philips Ingenuity TF (2015)
- EJNMMI Physics
(Other publication) - Seismocardiography: Toward Heart Rate Variability (HRV) Estimation (2015) 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MEMEA 2015) Proceedings Mojtaba Jafari Tadi, Eero Lehtonen, Tero Koivisto, Mikko Pänkäälä, Ari Paasio, Mika Teräs
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Tissue probability-based AC for neurological PET/MR using SPM8 (2015)
- EJNMMI Physics
(Other publication) - Abstract 15108: Imaging Coronary Atherosclerosis Using [18F]FDG PET-CT: Validation Study in Pigs (2014)
- Circulation
(Other publication) - Comparison of end-expiratory respiratory gating methods for PET/CT (2014)
- Acta Oncologica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Data-driven Dual-gating for Cardiac PET (2014) 2014 NSS/MIC Conference Record Kris Thielemans, Paul Schleyer, Paul K Marsden, Jarmo Teuho, Mika Teräs, Valentino Bettinardi, Leon Menezes, Ravindra M Manjeshwar, Charles W Stearns
(Other publication) - NACP 2014 and the Turku PET symposium: The interaction between therapy and imaging (2014)
- Acta Oncologica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Radiation protection of staff in PET centre activities – how to change from ‘yes but’ to ‘will do’ in staff radiation protection (2014) International Conference on Occupational Radiation Protection: Enhancing the Protection of Workers – Gaps, Challenges and Developments Salminen E, Barth I, Tolvanen T, Savisto N, Rimpler A, Teräs M, Bergman J, Bly R, Korpela H
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Specification and estimation of sources of bias affecting neurological studies in PET/MR with an anatomical brain phantom (2014)
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Use of a clinical PET/MR scanner for preclinical research with first results (2014)
- EJNMMI Physics
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal)
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