Scientific Associate - Brain Health Imaging Centre
About The Position
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada's largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital and a leading research centre. CAMH's Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute (CFMHRI) focuses on improving the understanding of the brain, causes and biomarkers of mental illness, and advancing prevention and treatment. The Brain Health Imaging Centre (BHIC) within CAMH is a global leader in clinical brain imaging, including PET, MRI, preclinical imaging, digital autoradiography, and radiochemistry production. The BHIC's mission is to advance brain health and mental well-being through innovative imaging technologies, research, patient care, and collaboration.
Requirements
- Expertise in medical radiation physics.
- Expertise in image analysis.
- Expertise in instrumentation pertaining to PET.
Responsibilities
- Calibration and quality maintenance of clinical PET scanners (HRRT and GE Discovery MI PET/CT) and preclinical PET scanners (Mediso PET/MR and PET/CT), as well as associated auxiliary equipment.
- Assisting with the support of computer and network infrastructure for secure management, processing, transfer, and storage of PET and MRI data.
- Developing and implementing PET methodology for preclinical and clinical PET tomographs, and creating solutions for challenges with newer PET tomographs.
- Acquiring data and performing image processing for physical characterization tests of PET systems (NEMA), quality control, calibration, and harmonization between scanners.
- Performing analysis of human PET and MRI image data.
- Helping to develop image analysis and dosimetry pipelines.
- Providing basic training to establish methodology for new PET tracers among CAMH researchers and trainees.
- Assisting with the preparation of data for publication.
- Implementing methods to ensure data compliance with conversion methods to standard data structures (e.g., BIDS).
- Setting up and maintaining shared computing and software resources for authorized users within BHIC.
- Data management responsibilities including data backup and oversight of data storage.
- Interacting and liaising with CAMH Research IT and Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics teams.
- Collaborating with the Methodology Team to maintain integrity of PET and associated data and integrate PET data into subsequent analysis.
- Helping to develop and enable data quality control pipelines to satisfy regulatory requirements for clinical studies.
- Performing investigations to validate new knowledge, imaging, analysis, and methods in imaging sciences.
- Providing training to CAMH staff and trainees.
- Involvement in preparing standard operating procedures and related documentation.
- Performing other research-related administrative duties.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
