Satu Ylimaula

Satu Ylimaula is a doctoral researcher in the Medical Imaging in Diagnostics, Algorithms and Software (MIDAS) research group at the Research Unit of Health Sciences and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Finland. She is also a resident medical physicist at Oulu University Hospital, Finland. Her research interests include scattered radiation, occupational radiation protection, radiation safety education, and medical imaging.

In her doctoral research, she investigates how X-ray scatter can be characterized and visualized to support radiation safety in clinical environments. Her work focuses on the development of measurement-based methods for assessing scattered radiation distributions and on improving the communication of scatter-related exposure information. The aim of her research is to enhance radiation safety awareness, support the optimization of occupational radiation protection, and contribute to safer use of ionizing radiation in healthcare.