marko pesola

Worked in Application and clinical support group. Master’s thesis: Measuring and correction of hysteresis phenomenon and RF system non-linearities in MRI system.

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* Physicist at the Medical Imaging Centre of Southwest Finland. * Feb 2011 * Apr 2011 Radiological Department of A- Hospital * May 2011 * Aug 2011 Laboratory of Clinical Physiology * Sep 2011 * Dec 2011 Unit of Clinical Neurophysiology * Jan 2012 * Sept 2012 Turku PET Centre, Nuclear Medicine Department * Oct 2012 * Jan 2013 Medical Physicist (act.) at the Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy.

Established System Verification and Image Quality (SVIQ) group for RF receive coil development. Participated in receiver coil verification and integrated RF coils development work by performing tests and leading several verification teams in different projects. Developed support for HFO Radiation Therapy package.

R&D physicist in MR scanner imaging methods development. Participated in development during two low field Panorama 0.23T&0.6T release projects.

Worked as an antenna designer in Radio communications laboratory’s Electromagnetic design and measurement group.

* Worked in the Laboratory of Physics’ COMP group as a researcher. Work consisted of simulating electronic and mechanical properties of defects in semiconductors, implementing computer programs and reporting results in peer-reviewed journals and in scientific conferences. Published three scientific articles in Physical Review Letters, six in Physical Review B and two in Applied Physics. * Participated in teaching as an assistant on courses: * Spring 1997 assistant, HUT, Physics I * Autumn 1997 assistant, HUT, Physics II * Spring 1998 assistant, HUT, Solid State Physics I * Spring 1999 assistant, HUT, Physics II

* Rank: Second lieutenant (reserve) * Basic training in Mortar in Santahamina, Helsinki and in RUK, Hamina. * 21.1.2000-30.6.2000 I served the last five months of my twelve-month conscript period working in the Finnish Defense Forces Materiel Establishment Headquarters, Tampere as an officer candidate planning tests for anti-aircraft missiles.

Implemented improvements in the alpha particle track image analysis software.

* http://mrc.utu.fi/ * Merisaari H et al. Magn Reson Med. 2019. * Toivonen et al. PLoS One. 2019 Jul 8 * 14(7):e0217702. * Jambor I et al. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2018 Mar * 45(3):355-364. * Holstila M et al. Metabolism. 2017 May * 70:23-30. * Merisaari H et al. Magn Reson Med. 2017 Mar * 77(3):1249-1264. * Jambor I et al. Magn Reson Med. 2016 May * 75(5):2130-40. * Jambor I et al. Magn Reson Med. 2016 Jan * 75(1):337-44. * Merisaari H et al. Magn Reson Imaging. 2015 Dec * 33(10):1212-1218. * Kiviniemi A et al. J Neurooncol. 2015 Sep * 124(2):237-45. * Kiviniemi A et al. EJNMMI Res. 2015 Apr 22 * 5:25. * Toivonen J et al. Magn Reson Med. 2015 Oct * 74(4):1116-24. * Jambor I et al. Magn Reson Med. 2015 May * 73(5):1988-98. * Jambor I et al. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2014 May * 39(5):1213-22.

Worked in Spin Muon Collaboration Polarized Targets project as a summer student. Developed symbolic computational methods for the analysis and synthesis of radio frequency circuits for the measurement of nuclear spin polarization.

Physicist at the departments of Radiation therapy and cancer diseases, Nuclear medicine and Radiology.

Nov 2005 - Sep 2006 Algorithm team leader in MR guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound project Development team leader in SW release project R7 (R6.2) and Applications design team leader in SW release R6 project for Panorama 0.23T and 0.6T. Besides team leading acted actively by performing numerous feasibility studies, writing design specifications, implementing imaging methods and testing the image quality. Participated also in method validation in collaboration with clinical applications (i.e. marketing).