Peter Aspelin

Biography

Peter Aspelin is professor of medical radiology at the Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. Originally from Uppsala, Prof. Aspelin moved to Malmö as a child and went on to receive his medical degree from the University of Lund in 1971. He then chose to specialise in diagnostic radiology and earned his PhD in 1976. Apart from his work as a clinician and academic, Prof. Aspelin is also dedicated to promoting the role of radiology at a political level. In the past he served as chairman of the Swedish Society of Radiology and the Swedish Society of Medicine. However, his work has not been limited to Sweden; he took part in creating the European Society of Radiology’s European Training Curriculum for Radiology and the European Society of Urogenital Radiology’s Contrast Media Guidelines. He was also a member of the programme planning committee for the European Congress of Radiology. He has hosted courses for the European School of Radiology and has delivered online lectures on behalf of the International Society of Radiology. He has published more than 170 scientific papers, several book chapters and edited a Swedish radiology textbook. He has also served as an associate editor for European Radiology and Acta Radiologica, as well as a reviewer for a number of other journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, European Journal of Radiology, British Journal of Radiology and The Lancet, among others.

Research Interest

Imaging of angiogenesis: Imaging of neovascular vessels is one of the most important things within radiology. This is normally done with the aid of contrast agents, both in CT and MR imaging. We study the neovascular beds, especially within breast, liver and pancreas tumors. We also look upon other modes for visualising malignancy with for example diffusion with MRI and its correlation to angiogenesis.