Mika Teräs
Professor, UTU and Chief Physicist TUH
Medical Physics; Nuclear Medicine; PET Methodology
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.
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
- Determinants of Myocardial Strain in Experimental Chronic Myocardial Infarction (2019)
- Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
- NEMA NU 4-2008 and in vivo imaging performance of RAYCAN trans-PET/CT X5 small animal imaging system (2019)
- Physics in Medicine and Biology
- Effect of sinus attenuation in MR-based attenuation correction in 18F-FDG brain PET/MR (2018)
- IFMBE proceedings
- Low-dose CT protocol optimization for the assessment of acute appendicitis: the opticap phantom study (2018)
- Radiation Protection Dosimetry
- National Programme for Radiation Safety Research 2018-2022 (2018) National Programme for Radiation Safety Research 2018-2022 Teemu Siiskonen, Maarit Muikku, Kari Peräjärvi, Filip Tuomisto, Juha Toivonen, Mika Valden, Tarmo Lipping, Jukka Lehto, Sauli Savolainen, Mika Kortesniemi, Peter Dendooven, Kai Nordlund, Jukka Juutilainen, JOnne Naarala, Sisako Salomaa, Jan Seppälä, Arja Kullaa, Paul Greenlees, Juha Röning, Heljä Oikarinen, Osmo Tervonen, Jaana Jurvansuu, Anssi Auvinen, Pietari Skyttä, Rami Vainio, Mika Teräs, Eeva Salminen, R. Aaltonen, P. Boström, A. Karlsson, V. Madekivi, Jani Keyriläinen
- Accuracy of echocardiographic area-length method in chronic myocardial infarction: comparison with cardiac CT in pigs (2017)
- Cardiovascular Ultrasound
- A novel dual gating approach using joint inertial sensors: implications for cardiac PET imaging (2017)
- Physics in Medicine and Biology
- Effect of Brain Tissue and Continuous Template-Based Skull in MR-Based Attenuation Correction for Brain PET/MR (2017)
- IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences
- Gyrocardiography: A New Non-invasive Monitoring Method for the Assessment of Cardiac Mechanics and the Estimation of Hemodynamic Variables (2017)
- Scientific Reports
- Multi-radiotracer PET/MR Truncation Correction by Segmentation of TOF-NAC-PET Images with F18-FDG, Ga-68 PSMA and O-15-H2O (2017)
- European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
- Quantitative Evaluation of 2 Scatter-Correction Techniques for F-18-FDG Brain PET/MRI in Regard to MR-Based Attenuation Correction (2017)
- Journal of Nuclear Medicine
- A Miniaturized MEMS Motion Processing System for Nuclear Medicine Imaging Applications (2016)
- Computing in Cardiology
- A real-time approach for heart rate monitoring using a Hilbert transform in seismocardiograms (2016)
- Physiological Measurement
- Effect of Attenuation Correction on Regional Quantification Between PET/MR and PET/CT: A Multicenter Study Using a 3-Dimensional Brain Phantom (2016)
- Journal of Nuclear Medicine
- Effect of levosimendan therapy on myocardial infarct size and left ventricular function after acute coronary occlusion (2016)
- Heart
- Erratum to: Absorption, distribution and excretion of intravenously injected 68Ge/68Ga generator eluate in healthy rats, and estimation of human radiation dosimetry (2016)
- EJNMMI Research
- Evaluation of motion-correction methods for dual-gated cardiac positron emission tomography/computed tomography imaging (2016)
- Nuclear Medicine Communications
Kris Thielemans, Erika Hoppela, Hannu Sipilä, Mika Teräs, Juhani Knuuti - Gyrocardiography: A new non-invasive approach in the study of mechanical motions of the heart. Concept, method and initial observations (2016) 2016 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) Mojtaba Jafari Tadi, Eero Lehtonen, Mikko Pankäälä, Antti Saraste, Tuija Vasankari, Mika Teräs, Tero Koivisto
- Linear relation between spirometric volume and the motion of cardiac structures: MRI and clinical PET study (2016)
- Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
- MEMS Gating: A new dual gating technique for eliminating motion-related inaccuracies in PET imaging (2016) Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Room-Temperature Semiconductor Detector Workshop (NSS/MIC/RTSD), 2016 Mojtaba Jafari Tadi, Jarmo Teuho, Eero Lehtonen, Antti Saraste, Mikko Pänkäälä, Tero Koivisto, Mika Teräs