Vesa
Oikonen
Senior Research Fellow, Turku PET Centre
MSc
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Areas of expertise
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.
Publications
¹¹C-ORM-13070, a novel PET ligand for brain α₂C-adrenoceptors: radiometabolism, plasma pharmacokinetics, whole-body distribution and radiation dosimetry in healthy men. (2014)
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Myocardial blood flow and its transit time, oxygen utilization, and efficiency of highly endurance-trained human heart. (2014)
Basic Research in Cardiology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
The effects of bariatric surgery on pancreatic lipid metabolism in morbidly obese subjects (2014)
Diabetologia
(O2 Muu julkaisu )
Assessment of blood flow with (68)Ga-DOTA PET in experimental inflammation: a validation study using (15)O-water. (2014)
American Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
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
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Pulmonary blood flow and its distribution in highly trained endurance athletes and healthy control subjects (2013)
Journal of Applied Physiology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
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
(O2 Muu julkaisu )
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)
Abstracts of the 48th EASD Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes
Diabetologia
(O2 Muu julkaisu )
Computation of myocardial blood flow and metabolic rate of O2 in right ventricle at rest and during exercise using H215O and 15O2 PET (2013)
(O2 Muu julkaisu )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
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))