Рrofessor Mattsson Lars Johan Sören (Malmö, Sweden)
Sören Mattsson studied mathematics, physics, nuclear physics and radiation physics at Lund University, Sweden from1963 to1973, when he became Ph.D. in radiation physics. He was medical physicist at Malmö General Hospital 1975-1982, professor at the University of Gothenburg and chief medical physicist at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg 1982-1988, professor at Lund University at Malmö and chief medical physicist at Malmö University Hospital MAS 1988-2010. Since 2010 he is senior professor of Medical Radiation Physics, Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University at Malmö. He is Dr honoris causa at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania and recipient of the Professor P.V. Ramzaev Medal of Honor.
Sören Mattsson joined the research group of professor Kurt Lidén in 1966 and was immediately engaged in studies of consequences of the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, especially for the Sami population in central and northern Sweden. He studied the transport of various radionuclides in the food-chain lichen-reindeer–man. His interest for problems in environmental radiology has continued with studies in Chernobyl-contaminated areas in Bryansk, Russia, in Belarus as well as in Sweden (in cooperation with IRH colleagues). He has conducted studies of the releases of radionuclides from nuclear reactors and reprocessing plants as well as from hospitals and research facilities.
As a medical physicist Mattsson initiated, performed and led research related to optimization of X-ray and nuclear medicine imaging, developed and evaluated tomosynthesis technique for mammography. One of his main interests is estimations of radiation doses to patients, occupationally exposed persons and the public.
He was also active in radiation therapy research and planning, and participated actively in the initiation and design of the Swedish national proton therapy centre (now Skandionkliniken) in Uppsala.
Sören Mattsson was a member of Committee 3 (Radiation in medicine) of the International Commission on Radiological Protection 1985-2013, and chairman of its Task Group on Radiation dose to Patients from Radiopharmaceuticals 1987-2015, and is now honorary co-chair. He is also honorary co-chair of its recently formed Task Group on Radiological Protection for Therapy with Radiopharmaceuticals.
He was member of priority committees and the research board of the Swedish Cancer Foundation 1994-2002 and chairman of committees for evaluation of future needs in radiation therapy, member of the research board of Swedish Radiation Protection Institute 2003-2010 and advisor to the Swedish government concerning future need of research in radiation protection.
He was member of the state advisory committee for high level nuclear waste (KASAM) and elected member of Swedish National Committee on Research in Radiation Protection under Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1977-1996, and its chairman 1991-1996.
He cooperates with Kaunas University of Technology with respect to medical physics education and research and has been a co-organizer of the yearly conferences on Medical Physics in the Baltic States since 2003.
Sören Mattsson was the main responsible for four international conferences: Body Composition Studies, 1997; Medical Imaging, 1999; Medical X-Ray Imaging, 2004; Medical X-ray and Molecular Imaging, 2009.
Some selected publications
Mattsson S, Johansson L, Leide Svegborn S, Liniecki J, Noßke D, Riklund K Å, Stabin M, Taylor D, Bolch W, Carlsson S, Eckerman K, Giussani A, Söderberg L, Valind S. ICRP Publication 128. Radiation dose to patients from radiopharmaceuticals: A compendium of current information related to frequently used substances. Ann. ICRP 44(S2), 7-321, 2015
Leide-Svegborn S, Ahlgren L., Johansson, L and Mattsson, S: Excretion of radionuclides in human breast milk after nuclear medicine examinations. Biokinetic and dosimetric data and recommendations on breastfeeding interruption. Eur.J.Nucl. Med. Mol. Imaging , Published online 6 January 2016; doi 10.1007/s00259-015-3286-0
Svahn T M, Houssami N, Sechopoulos I, Mattsson S. Review of radiation dose estimates in digital breast tomosynthesis relative to that in two-view full-field digital mammography. Breast 24(2), 93-99 (2015).
Gonçalves I, Andersson Georgiadou E, Mattsson S, Skog G, Pedro L, Fernandes e Fernandes J, Dias N, Engström G, Nilsson J and Stenström K. Direct association between diet and the stability of human atherosclerotic plaque. Sci. Rep.1 5:15524 | doi: 10.1038/srep15524, http://www.nature.com/articles/srep15524.
Bernhardsson C, Rääf C L, Mattsson S. Spatial variability of the dose rate from 137Cs fallout in settlements in Russia and Belarus more than two decades after the Chernobyl accident. J Env Radioactivity 149, 144-149, 2015.
Georgiadou E, Eriksson Stenström K, Bertacchi Uvo C, Nilsson P, Skog G, Mattsson S. Bomb-pulse 14C analysis combined with 13C and 15N measurements in blood serum from residents of Malmö, Sweden. Radiat Environ Biophys 52(2), 175-187, 2013.
Bernhardsson C, Matskevich S, Mattsson S, Rääf C. Comparative measurements of the external radiation exposure in a 137Cs contaminated village in Belarus based on optically stimulated luminescence in NaCl and thermoluminescence in LiF. Health Phys 103(6), 740-749, 2012. .
Mattsson S, Söderberg M. Radiation dose management in CT, SPECT/CT and PET/CT techniques. Rad Prot Dosim 147(1–2), 13–21, 2011.
Bernhardsson C, Zvonova I, Rääf C, Mattsson S. Measurements of long-term external and internal radiation exposure of inhabitants of some villages of the Bryansk region of Russia after the Chernobyl accident. Science Tot Environ 409(22), 4811-4817, 2011.
Gonçalves I, Stenström K, Skog G, Mattsson S, Nitulescu M, Nilsson J. Dating components of human atherosclerotic plaques. Circ Res 106(6),1174-1177, 2010.
Bernhardsson C, Christiansson M, Mattsson S, Rääf CL. Household salt as a retrospective dosemeter using optically stimulated luminescence. Radiation and Environmental Biophysics 2009: 48(1): 21-8. .
Börjesson J, Mattsson S. In vivo X-ray fluorescence measurements of lead, cadmium and mercury in occupational and environmental studies: A review of work conducted in Sweden 1970-2005. X-Ray Spectrometry, 37(1), 58-68, 2008 (Invited)
Edmund J M, Andersen CE, Greilich S, Sawakuchi G-O, Yukihara E G, Jain M, Hajdas W, Mattsson S. Optically stimulated luminescence from Al2O3:C irratiated with 10-60 MeV protons. Nucl Instr and Meth A, 580, 210-213, 2007
Mattsson S, Thomas BJ. Development of methods for body composition studies (Invited review). Phys Med Biol 51(13), R203-228, 2006
Thornberg C, Vesanen R, Wallström E, Zvonova I, Jesko T, Balonov M, Mattsson S. External and internal irradiation of a rural Bryansk (Russia) population from 1990 to 2000, following high deposition of radioactive caesium from the Chernobyl accident. Radiat Environ Biophys 44, 97-106, 2005
Lindahl P, Ellmark C, Gäfvert T, Mattsson S, Roos P, Holm E, Erlandsson B. Long-term study of 99Tc in the marine environment on the Swedish west coast. J Environ Radioact 67(2), 145-156, 2003
Mattsson S, Brahme A, Carlsson J, Denekamp J, Forssell-Aronsson E, Hellström M, Johansson K-A, Kjellén E, Littbrand B, Nordenskjöld B, Stenerlöw B, Turesson I, Zackrisson B, Glimelius B. Swedish cancer society radiation therapy research investigation. Acta Oncol 41, 596-603, 2002
Thornberg C, Vesanen R, Wallström E, Zvonova I, Jesko T, Albinsson J, Börjesson J, Mattsson S. Long-term external radiation exposure of inhabitants in the western Bryansk region, Russia, as a consequence of the Chernobyl accident. Radiat Environ Biophys 40, 287-94, 2001
Rääf C L, Hemdal B, Mattsson S. Ecological half-time of radiocesium from Chernobyl debris and from nuclear weapons fallout as measured in a group of subjects from the south of Sweden. Health Physics 81, 366-78, 2001
Thornberg C, Wallström E, Zvonova I, Jesko T, Vesanen R, Mattsson S. Estimation of whole-body content of 137Cs from a single urine sample: experience from areas in Russia contaminated after the Chernobyl accident. Rad Prot Dosim 88(3), 239-46, 2000
Thornberg C, Mattsson S. Increased 137Cs metabolism during pregnancy. Health Phys 78(5), 502-6, 2000
Jönsson H, Mattsson S. Thyroid burdens of 125I in hospital laboratory workers during a 20-y period
Health Phys 75(5), 475-8, 1998
Wallström E, Thornberg C, Erkin V G, Wöhni T, Gulikov V Yu, Zvonova I A, Jesko T V, Alpsten M, Balonov M I and Mattsson S. Estimation of radiation doses to population groups in the Brjansk area, Russia following the Chernobyl accident. In: “Environmental impact of radioactive releases”, IAEA, Vienna, 1996, pp. 413-420
Roos P, Holm E, Thornberg C, Mattsson S. Long-term trend of 239+240Pu and 99Tc in brown algae from the Swedish west coast. In: Umweltradioaktivität - Radioökologie – Strahlenwirkungen Band 2, Fachverband für Strahlenschutz e.V , 1993
Mattsson S and Moberg L. Fallout from Chernobyl and atmospheric nuclear weapons tests.Chernobyl in perspective. In: The Chernobyl fallout in Sweden. Results from a research programme on environmental radiology. Ed by L. Moberg. The Swedish Radiation Protection Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, 1991, pp. 591-627.
Olsson, L.E., Petersson, S., Ahlgren, L. and Mattsson, S. Ferrous sulphate gels for determination of absorbed dose distributions using MRI technique: basic studies. Phys. Med. Biol. 34, 43-52 (1989)
Mattsson, S. and Vesanen, R. Patterns of Chernobyl fallout in relation to local weather conditions. Enviroment. International 14, 177-180 (1988)
Mattsson, S. 137Cs in algae from the Swedish west coast, 1967-1983. In: Radiation-risk-protection (Ed by A. Kaul et al.) Fachverband für Strahlenschutz eV, Jülich, BRD pp 901-904 (1984)
Christoffersson J-O. and Mattsson S. Polarised X-rays in XRF-analysis for improved in vivo detectability of cadmium in man. Phys. Med. Biol. 28, 1135-1144 (1983)
Jacobsson L., Mattsson S., Bernstein, K., Ulmsten, U. and Åstedt, B. A method for determination of the depth of thrombi after injection of 125I-fibrinogen. Br. J. Radiol. A53, 668-672 (1980)
Mattsson S., Finck R. and Nilsson M. Distribution of activation products from Barsebäck nuclear power plant (Sweden) in the marine environment. Temporal and spatial variations as established by seaweed. Environmental Pollution A81, 105-115 (1980)
Erlandsson B. and MattssonS. Medically used radionuclides in sewage sludge. Water, Air and Soil Poll., 9, 199-206 (1978)
Ahlgren L., Lidén K, Mattsson S. and Tejning S. X-ray fluorescence analysis of lead in human skeleton in vivo. Scand. J. Work Environ. Health 2, 82-86 (1976)
Mattsson LJS. Sodium-22 in the food chain: lichen-reindeer-man. Health Phys. 23, 223-230 (1972)
Mattsson LJS. Cs-137 in the reindeer lichen Cladonia alpestris: Deposition, retention and internal distribution 1961-1970. Health Phys. 28, 233-248 (1975)
Mattsson LJS. Deposition, retention and internal distribution of Eu-155, Ce-144, Sb-125, Ru-106, Ze-95, Mn-54 and Be-7 in the reindeer lichen Cladonia alpestris, 1961-1970. Health Phys. 29, 27-41 (1975)
