Senior engineer - PET Imaging CenterPreclinical PETcore facility, University Hospital of North-Norway

About the position

The PET imaging center at Tromsø is the unit for molecular imaging at the Diagnostic Clinic, University Hospital of Nord-Norway (UNN). The center counts with over 40 employees, the environment is highly multidisciplinary, and posseses one of the most complete molecular imaging equipment parks in Scandinavia. The PET imaging center is innovative at national level, joining under the same roof radiopharmaca production, clinical diagnosis and treatment, and a R&D section. The institution counts with a cyclotron for the generation of radionuclides, state-of-the-art equipment for the production of radiotracers, new equipment for small animal in vivo imaging and clinical positron emission tomography (PET), single photon emission tomography (SPECT), computer tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) scanners.The group has a good research environment and cooperates closely with the Arctic University of Norway (Ui T), specially with the Faculty of Health Science (Helsefak). Read more about UNN at www.unn.no; and Helsefak at www.uit.no/helsefak.

A year engineer position (100%) with possibility of continuation is opened at the Preclinical facility section of the PET imaging center, most specifically, in the preclinical imaging facility (PETcore). PETcore is a collaborative project affiliated to the Tromsø PET imaging center (PET-center) and the Institute of Clinical Medicine (IKM) at Helsefak in Ui T. Our main focus is on delivering nuclear imaging services to Ui T/UNN researchers. We are a core facility, performing tracer developing studies, establishing imaging methods, as well as participating in study design, performance and data analysis in the projects ran at our platform.

The PETcore possesses a small animal three-modality scanner (PET/SPECT-CT); an image guided mouse irradiator, containing a bioluminescence imaging unit, and a preclinical 7T PET-MR scanner. All the imaging equipment mentioned is located behind animal barriers in the department of Comparative Medicine (AKM). AKM is a research department at the Health Science faculty approved by the authorities in order to establish and use animals in biomedical research. AKM and the PETcore serve users from the entire Ui T, from UNN and from other research institutions in the region. The employee will work closely together with the personnel at AKM. The candidate may not have known allergy to animals, nor rodents at home as pets (due to the risk of infection to the animals in the department).

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