
Rachel Eddy
Assistant ProfessorAbout
Dr. Rachel Eddy is an imaging scientist with expertise in quantitative CT and MRI of the lungs. Dr. Eddy is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Radiology and Pediatrics at UBC and James Hogg Young Investigator in Pulmonary Imaging at HLI. She is a biomedical engineer by undergraduate training and completed her PhD in Medical Biophysics at Western University. Dr. Eddy completed a postdoctoral fellowship at UBC, HLI, and BCCH, during which she launched the pulmonary MRI research program using hyperpolarized 129Xe gas at HLI. Dr. Eddy serves as the Director of the MRI Core at HLI.
Education & Training
- BEng, Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, McMaster University
- PhD, Medical Biophysics, Western University
Area of Interest
The lungs are highly heterogeneous in health and disease, both regionally within an individual person’s lungs and between different people. Pulmonary imaging methods, including CT and hyperpolarized gas MRI, provide new ways to non-invasively see and measure heterogeneous lung structure and function in vivo. Dr. Eddy’s research program is focused on developing and applying novel pulmonary imaging and data science tools to provide an in-depth understanding of chronic lung disease and novel inhalational lung exposures. It uses imaging to guide lung disease interventions, and her laboratory employs structural and functional 1H and 129Xe MRI methods in combination with quantitative CT to deeply characterize lung structure-function in health and disease across the lifespan.
Team Members
James Liggins – BSc, Research Technician
Alexandra Schmidt – BSc, MSc Candidate
Lixin Chu – BASc, MASc Candidate