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Georges El Fakhri, Ph.D.
Dr. El Fakhri is a staff physicist in the Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine and he is an Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School.
Georges El Fakhri, Ph.D. Location: Brigham and Women's Hospital
Department of Radiology
75 Francis Street
Boston, MA 02115
Email: elfakhri@bwh.harvard.edu
Phone: (617) 732-7142
Fax: (617) 632-6695
Interests:
Absolute quantitation of myocardial blood flow using factor and compartment analysis in Rb-82, N13 ammonia, O15-water PET

Design and evaluation of new compensation methods for physical factors affecting image quality in SPECT and PET for estimation and detection tasks.

Optimization of acquisition and processing techniques for lesion detection in whole-body oncologic PET imaging.

Simultaneous dynamic dual isotope imaging (I-123/Tc-99m) in brain and cardiac SPECT.

Background:
  • Ph.D. (Medical Physics), University of Paris, 1998.
  • M.S. (Biomedical Engineering), University of Paris, 1995.
  • M.S. (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science), University of Texas, Austin, TX, 1994.
  • M.Eng., Ecole Centrale, France, 1994.