The research area of the International Doctoral Programme in Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics is

"Human Monitoring - Imaging and Measuring Physiological Systems and Functions".

The monitoring techniques will be developed more accurate and efficient. By combining different techniques we will transfer the monitoring from laboratories to emergency sites, homes and everyday life.

This is enabled by new sensor technology, smaller microprocessors, implantation technology, and wireless signal transfer. Application of more efficient information processing and user-friendly devices will facilitate this development.

The research program will be done in close co-operation of the partner universities, hospitals and industry.

The research is funded by Ministry of Education and Culture, Academy of Finland and the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation.

The applicants to the Doctoral Programme may indicate which research group and which research project they prefer to join. They may also propose an own research subject in the area of the Doctoral Programme.

A list of the main research areas and existing research projects of each research group are listed below.

Aalto University

Electrocardiography
Magnetocardiography
Biomedical inverse problems
Biomedical image processing
Near-infrared spectroscopic imaging
Diffuse optical tomography
Human sleep research
Cellular level biophysics
Controlled drug release
Molecular level signaling of photoreceptors
Transcranial magnetic stimulation
Electroencephalography
Magnetoencephalography
Magnetic resonance imaging
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
Impedance tomography
High-temperature superconductors
Smart magnetic materials

University of Eastern Finland

Impedance tomography
Medical inverse problems
Optical tomography
Ultrasound threapy and diagnostics
Medical signal analysis
Medical imaging methods
Biomaterials
Micro and nanotechnology
Dental x-ray and mammography
Biomechanical diagnostics and motion analysis
Radiotherapy doseplanning
Surface science

University of Oulu

Analysis of non-linear systems
Artificial intelligence
Bioelectric measurements on cellular level
Biomechanics
Biophysics
Biosensors
Electric measurement of celle membrane and its proteins
Mathematical modeling
Medical imaging, image processing
Medical measurement technology
Optoelectronics
Signal processing
Telemedicine
Wireless systems

Tampere University of Technology

Bioelectromagnetism
Bioinformatics
Biomaterials
Biosensors
EEGEM - EEG in Emergency Medicine
EVICAB - European Virtual Campus for Biomedical Engineering
High resolution EEG
Implantable and wireless instruments
Modeling of bioelectric fields
Signal processing

University of Turku

Biomedical instrumentation
Microscopy