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Flower Georges El Fakhri, Ph.D.
Dr. El Fakhri is Director of Molecular Imaging Physics and Instrumentation at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is co-Director of the JPNM Physics and Instrumentation Group and is an Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School.

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:
  • M.Eng., Ecole Centrale, France, 1994
  • M.S. (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science), University of Texas, Austin, TX, 1994
  • M.S. (Biomedical Engineering), University of Paris, 1995
  • Ph.D. (Medical Physics), University of Paris, 1998
Curriculum Vitae:
Georges El Fakhri, Ph.D.
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Georges El Fakhri, Ph.D.
Location:
Massachusetts General Hospital
Department of Radiology
55 Fruit Street
Boston, MA 02114
Email:
Georges El Fakhri
Phone:
617-726-9640
Fax:
617-726-6165
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