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]