Department of Technical Physics - News

Fuel-powered auxiliary heaters can be significant sources of particulate emissions from vehicles.

MSc Amir Esrafilian’s dissertation developed different multiscale subject-specific knee joint computational modeling approaches to assess mechanical responses of knee load-bearing tissues in different functional activities such as daily activities and rehabilitation exercises.

Wearable sensor technology can be used to reliably assess the occurrence of myoclonic jerks in patients with epilepsy also in the home environment.

SmartSleep Lab is a new research laboratory to be set up in the Department of Applied Physics at the University of Eastern Finland. Relying on the principles of open science, the laboratory will provide a unique setting for sleep research and a versatile testbed for the health technology sector.

The University of Eastern Finland is a partner in a new, six-year project focusing on knee osteoarthritis, which has been granted approximately 6.7 million euros of funding by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. UEF’s share of the funding amounts to 1.4 million euros.

MSc Ville-Veikko Wettenhovi studied the image reconstruction of fMRI and PET. The results showed that the state estimation methods, especially the data driven method for covariance estimation, are feasible methods for the image reconstruction of fMRI data.

Doctoral dissertation of Lic.Phil. Ritva Bly shows that in comparison with 36 European countries frequencies of both x-ray and NM examinations in Finland were less than in average in Europe. This indicates that the level of justification in Finland is at least at the average European level.

A new project launched at the university focuses on the teaching of matrix and linear algebra as a single entity and produces content that is suitable for the needs of different academic subjects as extensively as possible.

3AWater, a technology start-up from Kuopio, Finland, commercializes a solution for fast and easy analytics of metal contents of waters.

​​​​​​​Sami Väänänen, PhD, a researcher at the UEF Department of Applied Physics and a medical physicist at the Kuopio University Hospital Diagnostic Imaging Centre has been granted Clinical Researcher funding by the Academy of Finland. Väänänen is the first medical physicist to receive this funding, which is usually granted to researchers in medicine or veterinary sciences.