Affiliation: University of Western Australia

Heidi Espedal, PhD, is a research fellow at the University of Western Australia and a facility fellow at the National Imaging Facility (NIF). She specializes in PET-CT and MR imaging. Espedal was the head of the preclinical PET-CT facility at the Molecular Imaging Center at the University of Bergen in Norway for seven years. During her postdoctoral research, she focused on gynecological cancer imaging (PET-CT and MRI) in mouse models, and her doctoral research included PET and MR imaging projects related to orthotopic brain tumors and brain metastases in rodent models. In addition to cancer imaging, Espedal has collaborated on numerous projects involving physiology, tissue engineering, and petroleum imaging. Her primary research interests revolve around dynamic PET imaging, translational imaging, and the development of improved quantification methods.