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Karin Wårdell

Professor

Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Research Leader for the Neuroengineering group.

Minimally Invasive Instrumentation and Neuroengineering (MINT)

Background

My background is in technical physics and electrical engineering (MSc-Y 1987), a PhD (1994) and Docent (1997) in Biomedical Instrumentation. Since 2002 I am Professor of Biomedical Engineering – minimally invasive instrumentation at Linköping University.

Research interests

My research interests lie in the field of neuroengineering and biomedical instrumentation and include:

  • neuronavigation
  • imaging methods
  • biomedical optics
  • modeling and simulation
  • brain microcirculation
  • translational research for clinical studies.

Main application areas are deep brain stimulation (DBS), optical guidance in neurosurgery, brain tumor surgery and monitoring methods in neurointensive care. The research is conducted in close collaboration with clinical researchers both nationally and internationally.

I am a recipient of the Otto Schmidt Award from the IFMBE, and a Fellow of IAMBE and EAMBES.

Contact

Phone number: +46 10 1032455 

Project grants

Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF), and Swedish Research Council (VR-NT), Child Cancer Foundation, ALF Region Östergötland, LiU Cancer. 

Publications

Publications from the Neuroengineering group

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ORCID

2024

Karin Wårdell, Johan Richter, Peter Zsigmond (2024) Cerebral Microcirculation: Progress and Outlook of Laser Doppler Flowmetry in Neurosurgery and Neurointensive Care Microcirculation (Article, review/survey) Continue to DOI
Dorian Vogel, Teresa Nordin, Stefanie Feiler, Karin Wårdell, Jerome Coste, Jean-Jacques Lemaire, Simone Hemm-Ode (2024) Probabilistic stimulation mapping from intra-operative thalamic deep brain stimulation data in essential tremor Journal of Neural Engineering, Vol. 21, Article 036017 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2023

Karin Wårdell, Elisabeth Klint, Peter Milos, Johan Richter (2023) One-Insertion Stereotactic Brain Biopsy Using In Vivo Optical Guidance-A Case Study Operative Neurosurgery, Vol. 25, p. 176-182 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Teresa Nordin, Patric Blomstedt, Simone Hemm-Ode, Karin Wårdell (2023) How Sample Size Impacts Probabilistic Stimulation Maps in Deep Brain Stimulation Brain Sciences, Vol. 13, Article 756 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Elisabeth Klint, Johan Richter, Karin Wårdell (2023) Combined Use of Frameless Neuronavigation and In Situ Optical Guidance in Brain Tumor Needle Biopsies Brain Sciences, Vol. 13, Article 809 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

Research

Neuroengineering

Neuroengineering

A cross disciplinary research field combining engineering and neuroscience. The focus is set on deep brain stimulation (DBS), neuronavigation, optical measurement techniques, brain microcirculation, neuroimaging and neuromodelling.
Biomedical optics.

Biomedical optics

Biomedical Optics studies the basic principles of interaction between light and biological tissues, cells and molecules and develops new technologies for use in basic research and clinical applications.

In the media

Framtidens forskning "Utvecklar beslutsstöd för djup hjärnstimulering" (2022-06-17)

Framtidens forskning "Kombination av tekniker ger nya möjligheter för neurokirurgi" (2022-06-17)

 

Coworkers

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Teresa Nordin

Assistant Professor

Elisabeth Klint

PhD student

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Sofie Tapper

Postdoc

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Stina Mauritzon

PhD student

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Simone Hemm-Ode

Guest professor

Johan Richter

Adjunct Associate Professor

Nathanael Göransson

MD, Neurosurgeon, PhD student

Peter Zsigmond

Consultant neurosurgeon, PhD

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Bengt Ragnemalm

Senior Coordinator

Organisation

Institutionen för medicinsk teknik

Department of Biomedical Engineering (IMT)

A national centre for research, PhD studies and graduate studies within biomedical engineering, since 1972.
Avdelningen för medicinsk teknik

Division of Biomedical Engineering (MT)

A national centre for research, education and innovation within the field of biomedical engineering.

News

Simone Hemm and Karin Wårdell

SSF contributes to new applications of Big Data

The IMT project "Deep Brain Stimulation: Data Analysis for Clinical Support" is presented in Framtidens forskning

To the article (in Swedish)
Biomedical Engineering

Major successes for multidisciplinary research at LiU

The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research has granted SEK 200 million for research in the interface between technology and medicine. LiU scientists are principle investigator in three of the six projects, and co-applicant in a fourth.

Research into "big data" secures big money

When Parkinson´s disease is treated by electrical stimulation of the brain, huge amounts of data are produced. A group of researchers led by Professor Karin Wårdell will now use these data to develop a visual aid for brain surgeons.

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