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Vesa Oikonen
MSc

- Senior Research Fellow,
Turku PET Centre (Independent units)

Turku PET Centre

vesa.oikonen@utu.fi

: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1947-0219

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PET data analysis and modelling

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Positron emission tomography, Medical imaging, Modeling

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.

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Impaired pancreatic blood flow due to high-fat diet (HFD); pancreatic fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose ([F-18]FDG) kinetics and validation (2012)
- Diabetologia
Honka H, Hannukainen JC, Tarkia M, Oikonen V, Saraste A, Teras M, Knuuti J, Fagerholm V, Mikkola K, Nuutila P
Mathematically Simulated Phantom for PET Kinetic Modelling (2012)
- European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
EANM 2012 Book of Abstracts Merisaari H, Nesterov SV, Oikonen V, Teras M, Han C
The effect of revascularization of renal artery stenosis on renal perfusion in patients with atherosclerotic renovascular disease. Nephrol Dial Transplant (2012)
- Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
Koivuviita N, Liukko K, Kudomi N, Oikonen V, Tertti R, Manner I, Vahlberg T, Nuutila P, Metsärinne K
Cerebral acetylcholinesterase activity is not decreased in MS patients with cognitive impairment (2011)
- Multiple Sclerosis
Virta JR, Laatu S, Parkkola R, Oikonen V, Rinne JO, Ruutiainen J
Cholinergic dysfunction after traumatic brain injury: preliminary findings from a PET study. (2011)
- Neurology
Östberg A, Virta J, Rinne JO, Oikonen V, Luoto P, Någren K, Arponen E, Tenovuo O
Different metabolic responses of human brown adipose tissue to activation by cold and insulin (2011)
- Cell Metabolism
Janne Orava, Pirjo Nuutila, Martin E Lidell, Vesa Oikonen, Tommi Noponen, Tapio Viljanen, Mika Scheinin, Markku Taittonen, Tarja Niemi, Sven Enerbäck, Kirsi A Virtanen
Extraction of input function from H215O PET imaging of rat heart (2011)
- European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
Kudomi N, Sipila H, Autio A, Oikonen V, Liljenback H, Tarkia M, Laivola J, Johansson J, Teras M, Roivainen A
Extraction of Input Function from Rat [F-18]FDG PET Images (2011)
- Molecular Imaging and Biology
Kudomi N, Bucci M, Oikonen V, Silvennoinen M, Kainulainen H, Nuutila P, Iozzo P, Roivainen A
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
Bucci M, Borra R, Någren K, Maggio R, Tuunanen H, Oikonen V, Del Ry S, Viljanen T, Taittonen M, Rigazio S, Gianessi D, Parkkola R, Knuuti J, Nuutila P
PET imaging of blood flow and glucose metabolism in localized musculoskeletal tumors of the extremities (2011)
- Nuclear Medicine and Biology
Paula Lindholm, Eija Sutinen, Vesa Oikonen, Kimmo Mattila, Maija Tarkkanen, Markku Kallajoki, Hannu Aro, Tom Böhling, Aarne Kivioja, Inkeri Elomaa, Heikki Minn