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Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation

Health Technology Research Infrastructure

The Health Technology Research Infrastructure consists of 13 laboratories at the Otaniemi campus and is part of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation. The laboratories provide high-quality medical technology equipment to several research groups and for teaching purposes in the Health Technology Engineering Programme.
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The EEA Health Technology Laboratory's research focuses on sustainable health technologies and development. Photo: Aalto University/Mikko Raskinen.

Health Technology Research Infrastructure houses 13 laboratories at the Otaniemi campus.The laboratories are part of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation in the School of Electrical EngineeringThe laboratories provide high-quality medical technology equipment to several research groups and for teaching purposes in the Health Technology Engineering Programme. The research infrastructure includes EEA Health Technology Laboratory, AMRI Laboratory, and 3D Cell Culture Laboratory, as well as Electronics Work Laboratory, Microsystems Technology Laboratory, and Thin Film Lab. You can read more about the AMRI Laboratory and the EEA Health Technology Laboratory below. 

You can read more about the AMRI Laboratory and the EEA Health Technology Laboratory below. 

AMRI Laboratory

What type of research is done at the laboratory?

In the AMRI (Accessible Magnetic Resonance Imaging) laboratory, a high image of the magnetic image of the well field is built and developed. The laboratory researches and develops new magnetic resonance imaging and methods that improve the accessibility of magnetic resonance imaging. Assistant Professor Ilkka Laakso leads the research group Electromagnetics in Health Technology. The group develops computational methods for multi-physics modelling of the human body. The research combines numerical analysis of electromagnetic fields with anatomical and functional modelling, having multidisciplinary applications in biomedical engineering (device development), clinical practice (diagnosis and rehabilitation), and neurosciences (brain research).

What is your most important research equipment?

The laboratory's most important equipment is the magnetic resonance equipment prototype and the protective room. The laboratory's magnetic resonance imaging equipment is used by Ilkka Laakso's Electromagnetic Health Technology research group. The most important parts of the MRI device prototype are the C-shaped magnet, gradient system (coil, amplifier and power supply), free waveform generator and data acquisition equipment.

Read more about the AMRI Laboratory 

Where to find us?

The AMRI laboratory facilities are located on the Otaniemi campus at Otakaari 7. 

EEA Health Technology Laboratory

What type of research is done at the laboratory?

For example, the Bionic and Rehabilitation Engineering research group, led by Ivan Vujaklija, studies human neuromuscular systems and associated disorders researching rehabilitation technologies and bionics. They try to design a new generation of prosthetic limbs, exoskeletons, and rehabilitation robots for people who have either lost their limbs or are suffering from disorders such as stroke or spinal cord injury. 

'We develop technologies and methodologies that can assist clinicians in the diagnosis and prognosis of these disorders, such as new sensors, electrodes, and devices that combine state-of-the-art in machine learning and signal processing.', says Assistant Professor Ivan Vujaklija.

What is your most important research equipment?

The most used piece of equipment in the lab for the Bionic and Rehabilitation Engineering research group is the High-Density biosignal amplifier that has the capability of measuring ~380 electromyographic (EMG) signals (electrical signals generated during a contraction of any skeletal muscle in our body). 

Where to find us?

The EEA Health Technology Laboratory's facilities are located on the Otaniemi campus at Otakaari 5. 

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Health technology research groups

Get to know the researchers and the research conducted in the health technology research infrastructure

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Bionic and Rehabilitation Engineering

Bionic and Rehabilitation Engineering (BaRE) research group investigates engineering techniques for human-machine interfacing in order to support, augment and rehabilitate human motor function. Through advancements in basic physiology, motor control, and biomechanics, we tailor novel biosensing and control approaches, as well as design methodologies in order to push the boundaries of current state-of-the-art bionic limbs, exoskeletons and rehabilitation robots.

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Electromagnetics in Health Technology

Electromagnetics in Health Technology

The group develops computational methods for multi-physics modelling of the human body.

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EILB group

Electronics Integration and Reliability

The research in the Electronics Integration and Reliability (EILB) is focused on new materials, heterogeneous integration, reliability, and sustainability of electronics.

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Microsystems Technology

Microsystems technology is a truly multidisciplinary research area. It is based on physical and analytical chemistry, biology, microelectronics, materials science, physics and biomedical technology.

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Sensor Informatics and Medical Technology

Research of the group focuses on sensor informatics, adaptive signal processing, data fusion systems, and machine learning (including AI), especially for medical applications. Other applications include smartphone sensor fusion, robotics, positioning systems, target tracking, biomedical imaging, and many other indirectly measured time-varying systems.

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Key Research Area: Health and well-being

Aalto University’s expertise in health and well-being is broad-based, with strong clusters of research groups such as in medical devices, health AI, neuroscience, and care-facility architecture.

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Research at the School of Electrical Engineering

The School of Electrical Engineering has three departments and one separate unit.

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Health Technology House

Otakaari 3 & Rakentajanaukio 2

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Paramedics treat a patient in an AMRI based Mobile Stroke Unit in a remote area at night

Accessible Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Accessible magnetic resonance imaging (AMRI) is a research collaboration between Aalto University Schools of Electrical Engineering and Aalto Arts, Design and Architecture.

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