Vesa Oikonen
MSc
Areas of expertise
Positron emission tomography, Medical imaging, Modeling
Positron emission tomography, Medical imaging, Modeling
Research
Modelling biochemical phenomena behind tissue distribution of positron emitting isotope labelled molecules in a living man, and development of computer software for PET model calculations.
Modelling biochemical phenomena behind tissue distribution of positron emitting isotope labelled molecules in a living man, and development of computer software for PET model calculations.
Publications
- Computation of myocardial blood flow and metabolic rate of O2 in right ventricle at rest and during exercise using H215O and 15O2 PET (2013) European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Kudomi N, Kalliokoski KK, Oikonen VJ, Han C, Kemppainen J, Luotolahti M, Sipila H, Duncker DJ, Knuuti J, Heinonen I
(Other publication) - Correlation of F-18-FDG PET/CT assessments with disease activity and markers of inflammation in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis following the initiation of combination therapy with triple oral antirheumatic drugs (2013)
- European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Inaccuracy in parameter estimation with background subtraction method in dual injection PET based on simulation study (2013)
- European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
(Other publication) - Metabolic shift with impaired perfusion of pancreas in type 2 diabetes: positron emission tomography study – Abstracts of the 48th EASD Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (2013)
- Diabetologia
(Other publication) - Pulmonary blood flow and its distribution in highly trained endurance athletes and healthy control subjects (2013)
- Journal of Applied Physiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Validation of [F-18]fluorodeoxyglucose and positron emission tomography (PET) for the measurement of intestinal metabolism in pigs, and evidence of intestinal insulin resistance in patients with morbid obesity (2013)
- Diabetologia
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - [C-11]ORM-13070, a Novel PET Tracer for Brain Alpha2C-Adrenoceptors-Radiometabolism, Plasma Pharmacokinetics, Whole-body Distribution and Radiation Dosimetry in Healthy Man (2012) Luoto P, Suilamo S, Oikonen V, Arponen E, Helin S, Hietamaki J, Holopainen A, Kailajarvi M, Rouru J, Sallinen J, Scheinin M, Virta J, Virtanen K, Roivainen A, Rinne JO
(Other publication) - Cross-validation of Input Functions Obtained by H-2 O-15 PET Imaging of Rat Heart and a Blood Flow-through Detector (2012)
- Molecular Imaging and Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Evaluation of Ga-68-labeled tracers for PET imaging of myocardial perfusion in pigs (2012)
- Nuclear Medicine and Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Impaired pancreatic blood flow due to high-fat diet (HFD); pancreatic fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose ([F-18]FDG) kinetics and validation (2012)
- Diabetologia
(Other publication) - Mathematically Simulated Phantom for PET Kinetic Modelling (2012)
- European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
(D3 Article in a professional conference publication) - The effect of revascularization of renal artery stenosis on renal perfusion in patients with atherosclerotic renovascular disease. Nephrol Dial Transplant (2012)
- Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Cerebral acetylcholinesterase activity is not decreased in MS patients with cognitive impairment (2011)
- Multiple Sclerosis
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Cholinergic dysfunction after traumatic brain injury: preliminary findings from a PET study. (2011)
- Neurology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Different metabolic responses of human brown adipose tissue to activation by cold and insulin (2011)
- Cell Metabolism
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Extraction of input function from H215O PET imaging of rat heart (2011)
- European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
(Other publication) - Extraction of Input Function from Rat [F-18]FDG PET Images (2011)
- Molecular Imaging and Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Human obesity is characterized by defective fat storage and enhanced muscle fatty acid oxidation, and trimetazidine gradually counteracts these abnormalities. (2011)
- American Journal of Physiology : Endocrinology and Metabolism
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - PET imaging of blood flow and glucose metabolism in localized musculoskeletal tumors of the extremities (2011)
- Nuclear Medicine and Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Reproducibility of striatal and thamalic dopamine D2 receptor binding using [11C]raclopride with high-resolution positron emission tomography (2011)
- Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



