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Åsa Carlsson Tedgren

Adjunct Professor

My research

My research area is medical radiation physics where I work in the fields of radiation dosimetry and radiation therapy with a special focus on various aspects of brachytherapy.

Brachytherapy is a form of radiation therapy for cancer where small sources of ionizing radiation are used to irradiate tumours from within the patient.

I currently hold a Senior Clinical Investigator Award from the Swedish Cancer Society providing 70% research time 2018-2024. I combine my research here at LiU with clinical work as a medical physicist in radiation therapy at the Karolinska University hospital. I am connected to the Centre for Medical Image Visualization, CMIV, here at Linköping University and have an affiliation to the Department of Oncology-Pathology at the Karolinska Institute.

About me

CV

  • 1995 Master's degree
  • 1999 Certified hospital physicist
  • 2004 Doctor of Medical Radiation Physics
  • 2000-2014 Physicist / Government Specialist at Strålskyddsmyndigheten
  • 2010 - in progress Adjunct lecturer, LiU
  • 2012 Associate Professor of Medical Radiophysics
  • 2015 - Hospital Physicist, Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset

Field of teaching

Assignments

  • Supervisor of PhD students
  • Adjunct lecturer at Radiological Sciences, HMV
  • Hospital physicists at Medical Radiation Physics and Nuclear Medicine, Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset

Publications

2024

Peter Georgi, Åsa Carlsson Tedgren, Linda Persson, Jacob Graversen Johansen (2024) Determination of intrinsic energy dependence of point-like inorganic scintillation detector in brachytherapy Medical physics (Lancaster) Continue to DOI

2023

J. Poder, M. J. Rivard, A. Howie, Åsa Carlsson Tedgren, A. Haworth (2023) Risk and Quality in Brachytherapy From a Technical Perspective Clinical Oncology, Vol. 35, p. 541-547 Continue to DOI
Maria Magnusson, Gudrun Alm Carlsson, Michael Sandborg, Åsa Carlsson Tedgren, Alexandr Malusek (2023) On the Choice of Base Materials for Alvarez-Macovski and DIRA Dual-energy Reconstruction Algorithms in CT Photon Counting Computed Tomography: Clinical Applications, Image Reconstruction and Material Discrimination, p. 153-175 Continue to DOI
Björn Morén, Majd Antaki, Gabriel Famulari, Marc Morcos, Torbjörn Larsson, Shirin A. Enger, Åsa Carlsson Tedgren (2023) Dosimetric impact of a robust optimization approach to mitigate effects from rotational uncertainty in prostate intensity‐modulated brachytherapy Medical physics (Lancaster), Vol. 50, p. 1029-1043 Continue to DOI
Luc Beaulieu, Facundo Ballester, Domingo Granero, Åsa Carlsson Tedgren, Annette Haworth, Jessica R. Lowenstein, Yunzhi Ma, Firas Mourtada, Panagiotis Papagiannis, Mark J. Rivard, Frank-Andre Siebert, Ron S. Sloboda, Ryan L. Smith, Rowan M. Thomson, Frank Verhaegen, Gabriel Fonseca, Javier Vijande (2023) AAPM WGDCAB Report 372: A joint AAPM, ESTRO, ABG, and ABS report on commissioning of model-based dose calculation algorithms in brachytherapy Medical physics (Lancaster) Continue to DOI

Research

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