Maria Holstensson Gästlärare
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Namn och titel: Maria HolstenssonGästlärare
Arbetsplats: Medicinsk strålningsfysik Länk till annan webbplats.
Besöksadress CCK Medicinsk Strålningsfysik Visionsgatan 56 plan 03
Postadress Medicinsk strålningsfysikBox 260, 171 76 Solna
Om mig
Associate professor, medical physicist in nuclear medicine
Teacher for the course in Nuclear Medicine Physics in the Medical Physics program at Stockholm University. Since 2015, co-coordinator for the course.
Supervision of PhD Students
Main supervisor to Ted Nilsson, PhD student – radiology, KI: Kinetic modelling and textural analysis applied to PET imaging with FAPI in pancreatic and gastric lesions. Registered 09/2023.
Main supervisor to Simone Bendazzoli, PhD student – technology and radiology, KI & KTH: Machine learning-based approaches for tumor segmentation, cancer classification and prognosis. Registered 01/2020. PhD obtained 11/2025.
Co-supervisor to Siri af Burén, PhD student – radiology, KI: New PET tracers 68Ga-FAPI and 68Ga-ABY-025 in patients with gastroesophageal cancer. Registered 05/2021.
Co-supervisor to Pawel Rasinski, PhD student – radiology, KI: PET imaging of tumors with strong desmoplastic reaction by a novel tracer, 68Ga-FAPI-46 (Fibroblast Activation Protein Inhibitor). Registered 04/2020.
Co-supervisor to Antonios Tzortzakakis, PhD student – radiology, KI: Non-invasive differentiation of oncocytomas from renal cell carcinomas. Registered 04/2017. PhD obtained 02/2021.
Supervision of MSc Students
Main supervisor, MSc project, Medical Radiation Physics Program, Stockholms Universitet, Amaniel Gebremariam, 2024: The influence of iodine contrast agent on the quantification of PET.
Main supervisor, MSc project, Medical Radiation Physics Program, Stockholms Universitet, Charles Lue, 2023: Monte Carlo simulations of the influence of arm positioning on diagnostic image quality in lung ventilation/perfusion SPECT.
Main supervisor, MSc project at advanced level, Karolinska Institutet, Linus Gustafsson, röntgensjuksköterska, 2022: Standardized Uptake Value (SUV) – den magiska siffran.
Main supervisor, MSc project, Medical Radiation Physics Program, Stockholms Universitet, August Blomgren, 2021: Assertion of maintained image quality and quantitation in the transition from step and shoot to continuous bed motion PET/CT.
Main supervisor, MSc project, Medical Radiation Physics Program, Stockholms Universitet, Pelin Sen, 2020: Harmonization of SUV and image quality between two PET/CT-cameras for 18F-FDG whole body imaging.
Main supervisor, MSc project at advanced level, KI, Emilia Östman 2019: Evaluation of geometric mean technique in renography. Emilia's thesis was nominated for The Global Undergraduate Awards 2019.
Main supervisor, MSc project, Medical Radiation Physics Program, Stockholms Universitet, Rassul Yunussov 2015: Optimisation of injected activities of 18F-FDG to adult patients scanned on a SIEMENS Biograph mCT. Rassul was awarded the Swedish Association for Medical Physics' Scholarship for Best Thesis 2015/2016.
Main supervisor, MSc project, Medical Radiation Physics Program, Stockholms Universitet, Ted Nilsson 2014: Optimisation of reconstructions on a SIEMENS Biograph mCT for whole body PET/CT examinations following the EARL recommendations. Ted was awarded the Swedish Association for Medical Physics' Scholarship for Best Thesis 2014/2015.
FAPI PET Versus FDG PET/CT in Gastrointestinal Cancers: An Overview | Lin Z, Rasinski P, Nilsson T, Holstensson M, Song Y, Blomgren A, Jutidamrongphan W, Pandya K, Hong J, Rominger A, Shi K, Axelsson R, Lan X, Seifert R. |
Acquisition Duration Optimization using Visual Grading Regression in [68Ga]FAPI-46 PET Imaging of Oncologic Patients | Nilsson T, Rasinski P, Smedby Ö, Af Burén S, Sparrelid E, Löhr JM, Tran TA, Blomgren A, Tzortzakakis A, Axelsson R, Holstensson M. |
[18 F]-PSMA-1007 PET imaging optimization and inter-rater reliability - a comparison of three different reconstructions read by four radiologists. | Jonmarker O, Nilsson T, Axelsson R, Ericson LH, Tran TA, Tzortzakakis A, Savitcheva I, Holstensson M. |
Tumor Characterization by [68Ga]FAPI-46 PET/CT Can Improve Treatment Selection for Pancreatic Cancer Patients: An Interim Analysis of a Prospective Clinical Trial. | Rasinski P, Af Burén S, Holstensson M, Nilsson T, Loizou L, Tran TA, Sparrelid E, Löhr JM, Axelsson R. |
99mTc-Sestamibi SPECT/CT and histopathological features of oncocytic renal neoplasia. | Tzortzakakis A, Papathomas T, Gustafsson O, Gabrielson S, Trpkov K, Ekström-Ehn L, Arvanitis A, Holstensson M, Karlsson M, Kokaraki G, Axelsson R. |
A 68Ga-FAPI-46 PET/CT Imaging Pitfall in Assessing Residual Gastric Cancer Early After Chemotherapy. | Af Burén S, Tran TA, Klevebro F, Holstensson M, Axelsson R. |
99mTc-HMPAO-WBC SPECT/CT versus 18F-FDG-WBC PET/CT in chronic prosthetic joint infection: a pilot study. | Teiler J, Ahl M, Åkerlund B, Brismar H, Holstensson M, Gabrielson S, Hedlund H, Axelsson R. |
Prospective data-driven respiratory gating of [68Ga]Ga-DOTATOC PET/CT. | Sigfridsson J, Lindström E, Iyer V, Holstensson M, Velikyan I, Sundin A, Lubberink M. |
Dual-tracer approach vs. dual time-point approach in leukocyte scintigraphy in treatment evaluation of persistent chronic prosthetic joint infection. | Teiler J, Åkerlund B, Brismar H, Savitcheva I, Ahl M, Bjäreback A, Hedlund H, Holstensson M, Axelsson R. |
Comparison of acquisition protocols for ventilation/perfusion SPECT-a Monte Carlo study. | Holstensson M, Smedby Ö, Poludniowski G, Sanchez-Crespo A, Savitcheva I, Öberg M, Grybäck P, Gabrielson S, Sandqvist P, Bartholdson E, Axelsson R. |
Is 99mTc-HMPAO-leukocyte imaging an accurate method in evaluating therapy result in prosthetic joint infection and diagnosing suspected chronic prosthetic joint infection? | Teiler J, Ahl M, Åkerlund B, Wird S, Brismar H, Bjäreback A, Hedlund H, Holstensson M, Axelsson R. |
Intra- and Interobserver Agreement of SUV SPECT Quantitative SPECT/CT Processing Software, Applied in Clinical Settings for Patients with Solid Renal Tumors. | Tzortzakakis A, Holstensson M, Hagel E, Karlsson M, Axelsson R. |
Scatter and crosstalk corrections for (99m)Tc/(123)I dual-radionuclide imaging using a CZT SPECT system with pinhole collimators. | Fan P, Hutton BF, Holstensson M, Ljungberg M, Pretorius PH, Prasad R, Ma T, Liu Y, Wang S, Thorn SL, Stacy MR, Sinusas AJ, Liu C. |
Model-based correction for scatter and tailing effects in simultaneous 99mTc and 123I imaging for a CdZnTe cardiac SPECT camera. | Holstensson M, Erlandsson K, Poludniowski G, Ben-Haim S, Hutton BF. |
Clinical feasibility study to detect angiogenesis following bone marrow stem cell transplantation in chronic ischaemic heart failure. | Mozid AM, Holstensson M, Choudhury T, Ben-Haim S, Allie R, Martin J, Sinusas AJ, Hutton BF, Mathur A. |
The effect of energy and source location on gamma camera intrinsic and extrinsic spatial resolution: an experimental and Monte Carlo study. | Holstensson M, Partridge M, Buckley SE, Flux GD. |
Optimization of energy-window settings for scatter correction in quantitative (111)In imaging: comparison of measurements and Monte Carlo simulations. | Holstensson M, Hindorf C, Ljungberg M, Partridge M, Flux GD. |