Team

Clinical and engineering leadership

FluoLink brings together neurosurgical practice and biomedical engineering research from Linköping.

Portrait of Johan Richter, MD, PhD

Johan Richter, MD, PhD

Neurosurgeon, Linköping University Hospital

Brain tumour expert and clinical lead. Johan has driven the clinical evaluation of fluorescence guided resection and optical brain biopsy, and defended his thesis on hand-held spectroscopic probes at Linköping University in 2017.

Portrait of Karin Wårdell

Karin Wårdell

Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Linköping University

Head of the Neuroengineering Group and originator of the combined fluorescence and laser Doppler method. Karin has authored more than two hundred scientific contributions on optical measurements in the brain over three decades.

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Elisabeth Klint, PhD

Biomedical Engineering, Linköping University

Her research links indications from intraoperative fluorescence, diffusion MRI, MRI relaxometry to neuropathological results in navigated brain tumour biopsies.