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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

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

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