Risto A. Kauppinen, MD, PhD
Director
Visiting Professor of Radiology
Email: Risto.A.Kauppinen@Dartmouth.edu
Phone: (603) 650-1677
Fax: (603) 650-1717
MRI techniques for imaging of acute stroke
MRI techniques for functional brain imaging
MR techniques for cancer imaging
Selected publications:
Tuunanen P.I, Murray I.J., Parry N.R.A. and Kauppinen R.A. (2006) Heterogeneous oxygen extraction in the visual cortex during activation in mild hypoxic hypoxia revealed by quantitative functional magnetic resonance imaging. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 26, 263-273.
Kettunen M.I., Sierra A., Silvennoinen M.J., Valonen P.K., Cerdan S., Ylä-Herttuala S., Kauppinen R.A. and Gröhn O.H.J. (2007) The dispersion of on-resonance T1p at low B1 fields during gene therapy of gliomas in the rat. Radiology 243, 796-803.
Jokivarsi K, Grohn H.I., Grohn O.H.J and Kauppinen R.A. (2007) Proton transfer ratio, lactate and intracellular pH in acute cerebral ischaemia. Magn Reson Med 57, 647-653.
Denes A., Vidyasagar R., Feng J., Narvainen J., McColl B., Kauppinen R.A. and Allan S. (2007) Proliferating resident microglial after transient focal cerebral ischaemia in mice. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab in press.
Kauppinen R.A.,Vidyasagar R., Childs, C., Balanos G.M. and Hiltunen Y (2007) Assessment of human brain temperature by 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy during visual stimulation and hypercapnia. NMR Biomed in press.
Active research funding:
Medical Research Council (UK): Lipids Detected by 1H MRS as Brain Tumour Biomarkers (07/2007 - 06/2010)
The Leverhulme Foundation (UK): Proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Techniques for pH Determinations in Biological Systems (10/2004 – 12/2007)
