Western Australia NIF Node
About
The Western Australia NIF Node (WANIF) offers a state-of-the-art technical platform, allowing high-resolution imaging of materials, plants and specimens, as well as preclinical small animal and biomedical human research capabilities. The WANIF aims to provide open access to researchers and investigators, offering imaging solutions from mice to humans (and almost everything in between), in morphology and function, on a microscopic to a macroscopic scale.
Animals, Plants and Materials Imaging
WANIF provides in vivo/ex vivo preclinical Micro-CT and MR-imaging capabilities, along with live animal in vivo fluorescence and bioluminescence, high frequency ultrasound and photo acoustic imaging capabilities. We also host a large field-of-view X-Ray CT scanner, dedicated to materials research.
Human Imaging
WANIF 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.
Radiopharmaceuticals
WANIF staff provide the expertise to allow researchers to use a range of PET radiopharmaceuticals critical for PET imaging studies.
Locations
Level 3, The Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research
QEII Medical Centre Campus
6 Verdun Street, Nedlands WA 6009
WANIF Radiopharmaceuticals is partnered with RAPID, the cyclotron laboratory at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, located next to the NIF facility.
Latest news
WA medical researchers to benefit from expanded lab facilities
02 June 2026
Australian Epilepsy Project awarded $30 million to improve diagnosis and care for Australian patients
28 May 2026
The unseen engine
13 April 2026
MRIs, Moon and Mars missions: NIF enables investigation of brain effects of extended space flight
01 April 2026
Publications
Syndrome-specific and familial imaging traits in juvenile absence epilepsy
Fenglai Xiao, Lorenzo Caciagli, Luisa Delazer, Sjoerd Vos, Karin Trimmel, Louis Andre Van Graan, Marine Fleury, Lawrence Binding, Davide Giampiccolo, Dominic Heaney, Sanjeev Rajakulendran, Maria Centeno, Josemir W. Sander, John S. Duncan, Matthias J. Koepp, Britta Wandschneider
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White matter resection and verbal memory deficits after temporal lobe epilepsy surgery
Lawrence P Binding, Davide Giampiccolo, Yaqi Ji, Marine Fleury, Sherry Liu, Lorenzo Bianchi, Anna Miserocchi, Andrew W McEvoy, Sallie Baxendale, Matthias Koepp, Fenglai Xiao, Aidan G O’Keeffe, Meneka K Sidhu, Peter N Taylor, Jane de Tisi, Gavin P Winston, John S Duncan, Sjoerd B Vos
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Clinical and cognitive profile of nigral iron content in children with ADHD
Hugo A.E. Morandini, Sjoerd B. Vos, Ranila Bhoyroo, Angela Jacques, Pradeep Rao
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Development and validation of a 3D-printed dosimetry phantom for paediatric radiology
Jonathon Richard Stone, Pejman Rowshanfarzad, Adriano Polpo, Chris Williams & Rikki Nezich
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