Noora Rajala is a senior researcher at the Turku PET Centre in Finland. Her daily work involves clinical production of Fluorine-18 and Gallium-68 tracers and the development of new synthesis methods for clinical use as well as improvement of existing procedures. She has a Master of Science degree in Radiochemistry from University of Helsinki. Rajala is PhD candidate carrying out research with a title “Advanced ¹⁸F-radiolabeling of small molecules”. Her thesis research focuses on development of nucleophilic and transition-metal-mediated ¹⁸F-fluorination methods, and their automation.

e-mail: noora.rajala@utu.fi

Publications

• Lahdenpohja S, Rajala N, Helin J, Haaparanta-Solin M, Solin O, López-Picón F, Kirjavainen AK: Ruthenium-Mediated ¹⁸F-Fluorination and Preclinical Evaluation of a New CB1 Receptor Imaging Agent [¹⁸F]FPATPP, ACS Chem Neurosci, 2020, 11: 2009-2018.
• Lahdenpohja S, Rajala N, Rajander J, Kirjavainen AK: Fast and efficient copper-mediated ¹⁸F-fluorination of arylstannanes, aryl boronic acids, and aryl boronic esters without azeotropic drying, EJNMMI Radiopharm Chem, 2019, 4: 28.