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Michael Sandborg

My research focuses on finding optimal X-ray imaging techniques in health care. We develop methods to measure patient doses and the quality of the radiographic images in collaboration with health care professionals.

Optimal use of ionising radiation for diagnostic therapeutic purposes

My research interest focuses on:

  • Radiation dosimetry in radiology and radiological interventions
  • Optimisation of radiological examinations with respect to image quality and patient doses
  • Quantitative computed tomography for more accurate radiotherapy

About me

CV

  • 1986 Medical Physicist
  • 1993 PhD in Medical Radiation physics
  • 2002 Docent in Medical Radiation physics
  • 2009 Specialist in Medical Physics
  • 2012 Professor
  • 2016 Adjunct Professor
  • 2020 Medical Physicist, radiation protection expert

Field of teaching

  • I teach medical radiation physics and radiological protection to medical- and biomedical engineering students at Linköping university and staff at Region Östergötland.

Assignments

  • Optimal use of ionising radiation for diagnostic therapeutic purposes
    My research interest focuses on optimisation of radiological examinations with respect to image quality and patient doses and quantitative computed tomography for more accurate radiotherapy treatment. We use the clinical X ray equipment at CMIV and at Region Östergötland. I supervise PhD students, medical physicists, biomedical engineers and radiology staff in their research and professional training.

Publications

2026

Maria Magnusson, Michael Sandborg, Åsa Carlsson Tedgren, Alexandr Malusek (2026) Quantitative determination of gadolinium and iodine contrast agents in dual-energy computed tomography via a dual-energy iterative reconstruction algorithm: a simulation study on multi-contrast imaging Radiation Protection Dosimetry, Vol. 202, p. 268-275 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Alexandr Malusek, Sofie Malmodin, Maria Magnusson, Michael Sandborg, Åsa Carlsson Tedgren (2026) Optimizing material composition determination in dual-energy computed tomography: a comparative study of a linear model and a fully connected neural network Radiation Protection Dosimetry, Vol. 202, p. 172-179 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Maria Magnusson, Michael Sandborg, Åsa Carlsson Tedgren, Alexandr Malusek (2026) Evaluating the dual-energy iterative reconstruction algorithm (DIRA) for accurate CT number determination in DECT imaging Radiation Protection Dosimetry, Vol. 202, p. 195-203 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2025

Hakon Blomstrand, Erik Tesselaar, Bergthor Björnsson, Wolf Bartholomä, Tomas Bjerner, Michael Sandborg, Nils Elander, Mischa Woisetschläger (2025) PCD-CT Versus EID-CT in Imaging of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma: A Prospective Comparative Pilot Study Anticancer Research, Vol. 45, p. 1547-1558 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2024

Maria Magnusson, Michael Sandborg, Åsa Carlsson Tedgren, Alexandr Malusek (2024) The accuracy of CT Numbers for DIRA with indata from a Real Dual-Source DECT-scanner The 8th International Conferenceon Image Formationin X-Ray Computed Tomography: Program and Proceedings, p. 404-407 (Conference paper)

Research

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Optimizing X-ray imaging procedures

Optimising medical x-ray examination aims to find the settings on the x-ray unit that minimises the patient exposure while maintaining sufficient image quality.
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Quantitative computed tomography for more accurate radiotherapy

We are developing quantitative image reconstruction methods with dual-energy computed tomography to measure the atomic composition of patient organs before radio therapy.

Research Center

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Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization, CMIV

CMIV conducts focused front-line research providing solutions to tomorrow’s clinical issues. The CMIV mission is to develop future methods and tools for image analysis and visualization for applications within health care and medical research.

Co-workers

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Alexandr Malusek

Associate Professor

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Maria Magnusson

Associate Professor

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Åsa Carlsson Tedgren

Affiliated Researcher, Docent

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Bharti Kataria

Affiliated Researcher

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Anders Persson

Director, Professor, Head of Division

  • Jonas Nilsson Althen

Organisation

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Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences (HMV)

The research areas at HMV include experimental basic research to clinical, social and public health research. We conduct high-quality education in the sought-after care professions.
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Division of Diagnostics and Specialist Medicine (DISP)

The division consists of three units (internal medicine, cardiovascular and radiological sciences) and contains seven subject areas within which research and teaching are conducted.
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Unit of Radiological Sciences

We conduct research in medical radiology and visualisation, radiation physics, radiochemistry and radioecology.

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