WA National Imaging Facility
About us
The National Imaging Facility is Australia’s advanced imaging network. Our vision is to enable Australian imaging science to unlock solutions to major challenges.
Our mission is to make cutting-edge imaging capabilities accessible to Australian researchers and industry, to enable significant impacts on national health challenges and to accelerate Australian innovation.
The WA NIF provides a full pipeline of open access advanced imaging capabilities to researchers and investigators, offering imaging solutions from mice to humans (and almost everything in between), morphology and function, on a microscopic to a macroscopic scale.
We are located on Level 3 of the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research (North) on the QEII Medical Centre campus.
WA NIF Radiopharmaceuticals is partnered with RAPID, the cyclotron laboratory at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, located next to the WA NIF facility.
Our imaging services
Human Imaging
The WA NIF houses powerful state-of-the-art equipment (digital PET-CT and 3T MRI) in a research-dedicated environment. These instruments provide a unique capacity for standardised, reproducible, and quantifiable imaging to support biomedical research and imaging for clinical trials.
Preclinical Imaging: Animals, Plants, and Materials Imaging
We provide in vivo/ ex vivo pre-clinical Micro-CT and MR-imaging capabilities, along with live animal in vivo fluorescence and bioluminescence, high frequency ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging capabilities. We also host a Large Field-of-View X-Ray CT scanner, dedicated to materials research.
Radiopharmaceuticals
The WA NIF staff provides the expertise and know-how to enable researchers to access the right PET radiopharmaceuticals for their study. This is an important aspect to consider for any PET imaging project.
Image Data Analysis Service
The WA NIF Node contains a comprehensive range of biomedical and materials imaging instruments, and we provide image analysis and informatics expertise to users across all instruments.
The WA NIF Node is proud to be partnered with the Australian Centre for Quantitative Analysis (ACQI) who can provide access to an XNAT repository (as part of the Australian Imaging Service network). ACQI provides facilities for the management of imaging data and associated analytics services for researchers and utilises computing resources supported by NCRIS.
Meet our team
Paul Parizel
Chair
Bec Dickson
General Manager, WA National Imaging Facility
Roslyn Francis
Associate Professor
Diana Patalwala
Senior Research Officer
Sjoerd Vos
Senior Research Fellow
Tim Rosenow
Senior Research Fellow
Heidi Espedal
Research Fellow
Joseph Ioppolo
Research Fellow
Location and contact
Email: [email protected]
Address: WA National Imaging Facility
Level 3, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research
QEII Medical Centre campus
Nedlands WA 6009
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