Dates: 17-19 March, 2026
Venue: Kuopio Music Center, Kuopionlahdenkatu 23, 3rd floor, Jousisto-room, https://www.kuopionmusiikkikeskus.fi/
Description: Biomedical optical tomography techniques, for example, diffuse optical tomography, optical projection tomography, and fluorescence tomography are non-invasive imaging techniques that use near-infrared light to image internal structures and functions of biological tissues. The contrast in these modalities is based on absorption and scattering of light in biological tissues. Especially absorption is in the interest due to the unique information it provides on important tissue absorbers, such as oxygenated and deoxygenated haemoglobin, leading to applications, for example, in cancer studies and functional brain imaging. Image reconstruction in optical tomography is a highly ill-posed inverse problem. This sets challenges both for the hardware, such as calibration and compensation of artefacts, and modelling and methodologies for accurate image reconstruction. Especially important is to approach these different aspects of imaging as a joint effort between experimental and theoretical scientists. The workshop will bring together scientists working of different aspects of biomedical optical tomography.
The workshop is supported by the French Institute in Finland, the French Ministry of Research and the Finnish Society of Sciences through French-Finnish Maupertuis call for scientific workshops and European Research Council.
The workshop is by invitation only. If you wish to participate, contact the organisers.
Scientific committee: Anabela Da Silva, Tanja Tarvainen
Local organisers: Jonna Kangasniemi, Meghdoot Mozumder, Jarjish Rahaman, Konstantin Tamarov, Tanja Tarvainen, Siiri Utriainen
Contact: Siiri Utriainen, [email protected]
Schedule and abstracts
Preliminary schedule:
Schedule pdf: download.
Book of abstracts: download.
Travel and accommodation
Kuopio airport is located around 20 minutes from the city center by car. For travelling to the city, taxi is the easiest and suggested method. Due to the small size of the airport, we recommend ordering the taxi beforehand. The taxi can be ordered from TaksiYkköset.
The train station is located near the city center. The city center can be reached in ten minutes by foot.
There are several hotels in the city centre. The participants of the workshop can book rooms with discounted rates from Hotel Puijonsarvi and Hotel Atlas. Please ask the organisers ([email protected]) for a discount code.
List of participants
Annevirta, Jonne, Aalto University, Finland.
Bykov, Alexander, University of Oulu, Finland.
Chaux, Caroline, IPAL and CNRS, France.
Correia, Teresa, CCMAR, Portugal.
Da Silva, Anabela, CNRS, Institut Fresnel, France.
Ducros, Nicolas, INSA Lyon, France.
Elbau, Peter, University of Vienna, Austria.
Fang, Qianqian, Northeastern University College Engineering, United States of America.
Farina, Andrea, IFN – CNR, Italy.
Florescu, Lucia, University of Surrey United, Kingdom.
Hakula, Aada, Aalto University, Finland.
Hirvi, Pauliina, Aalto Univeristy, Finland.
Hyvönen, Nuutti, Aalto University, Finland.
Hänninen, Niko, University of Eastern Finland, Finland.
Kangasniemi, Jonna, University of Eastern Finland, Finland.
Kolehmainen, Ville, University of Eastern Finland, Finland.
Lavaud, Clément, Institut de Mathématiques de Marseille and Institut Fresnel, Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Centrale Méditerranée, France.
Leskinen, Jarkko, University of Eastern Finland, Finland.
Lucka, Felix, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Machida, Manabu, Kindai University, Japan.
Mozumder, Meghdoot, University of Eastern Finland, Finland.
Nguyen, Pascal, Kaer Labs, Aix-Marseille University, Institut Fresnel, France.
Nissilä, Ilkka, Aalto University, Finland.
Nissinen, Jan, University of Oulu, Finland.
Olkkonen, Jaakko, Aalto University, Finland.
Räsänen, Mikko, University of Eastern Finland, Finland.
Rahaman, Jarjish, University of Eastern Finland, Finland.
Ramlau, Ronny, Johannes Kepler University Linz and Johann Radon Institut for Computational and Applied Mathematics, Austria.
Renvall, Hanna, Aalto University, Finland.
Rodriguez-Vega, Martin, Institut Fresnel, France.
Scherzer, Otmar, University of Vienna, Austria.
Schotland, John, Yale University, United States of America.
Tamarov, Konstantin, University of Eastern Finland, Finland.
Tarvainen, Tanja, University of Eastern Finland, Finland.
Utriainen, Siiri, University of Eastern Finland, Finland.
Wojak, Julien, Aix-Marseille University, Institut Fresnel, France.
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