Rate My Professor Nanette Schleich

Dr. Nanette Schleich serves as a Senior Professional Practice Fellow in the Department of Radiation Therapy at the University of Otago, Wellington, within the Division of Health Sciences and Faculty of Health Professional Programmes. Her academic qualifications include a PhD (Dr rer nat), Diplom, Dipl-Ing(FH), PGDipSc, CELTA, and GradCertAntaStud. She contributes to teaching courses such as RADT127 Radiation Technology I. Schleich's expertise lies in medical physics, with research interests centered on radiation therapy and medical imaging, including dual energy X-ray analysis and spectral X-ray CT imaging. She is affiliated with the Centre for Bioengineering & Nanomedicine and serves on the editorial board of Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine.

Schleich has co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications advancing dosimetry, spectral CT, and imaging techniques. Key works include 'Molecular imaging of pulmonary tuberculosis in an ex-vivo mouse model using spectral photon-counting computed tomography and micro-CT' (IEEE Access, 2021), 'Assessment of material identification errors, image quality, and radiation doses using small animal spectral photon-counting CT' (IEEE Transactions on Radiation & Plasma Medical Sciences, 2021), 'Interactive image segmentation of MARS datasets using bag of features' (IEEE Transactions on Radiation & Plasma Medical Sciences, 2021), 'CT dosimetry at the Australian Synchrotron for 25–100 keV photons and 35–160 mm-diameter biological specimens' (Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, 2019), 'Measuring identification and quantification errors in spectral CT material decomposition' (Applied Sciences, 2018), and 'Beam profile assessment in spectral CT scanners' (2018). Her contributions extend to the MARS spectral CT project, synchrotron CT dosimetry, and studies on material decomposition, artefact reduction in implants, and molecular imaging applications such as tuberculosis detection and atherosclerotic plaque characterization. She has received funding from University of Otago Research Grant (2016) and Wellington Dean's Equipment Grant (2018). Schleich has supervised doctoral research and participated in synchrotron experiments at the Australian Synchrotron.