Linda Knutsson

Dr. Linda Knutsson is a Professor at the F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute. She also is a Professor of Medical Radiation Physics at Lund University, Sweden and group leader of the MR-physics group i Lund (40 members).

Dr. Knutsson's research is mainly focused on perfusion (microvascular blood flow) and perfusion-related measurements using MRI. The main target parameters are cerebral blood flow, cerebral blood volume, mean transit time, permeability and oxygen extraction fraction. Relevant methods that Dr. Knutsson is working with are arterial spin labelling (ASL), dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) MRI and dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC) MRI. Dr. Knutsson's research also includes an emerging technique called chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) MRI to retrieve perfusion and perfusion related parameters using natural sugar. For her research contributions she received the Kurt Lidén's Award - 2015, from the Swedish Society of Radiation Physics.