Adam Farag

Hybrid Positron Emission Tomography (PET)/Magnetic Resonance (MR) is a powerful imaging modality that provides both valuable molecular information through the PET side, as well as superior anatomical and soft tissue information through the MR side. Dr. Farag’s research focuses on improving PET/MR image quality and quantification accuracy, which is required for better disease diagnostics, prognostics, and therapy. Dr. Farag utilizes the anatomical information from the MRI side to guide the reconstruction of the PET images using different approaches for different body regions, such as the brain, pelvic, and whole body. Additionally, he investigates different motion (respiratory and cardiac) correction techniques, such as the elastic motion correction technique, that are applied to the PET images, and the MR-based motion correction techniques to correct motion artifacts in PET images. Dr. Farag collaborates with fellow scientists, oncologists, interventionalists, and radiologists in understanding hypoxia in kidney transplant patients, as well as cancerous and non-cancerous tissue by using tracer kinetic modelling of the PET uptake. He also leads the research of automating the registration, segmentation and quantification using the deep learning techniques in order to assess the Florbetaben uptake and quantitative analysis of Alzheimer’s disease.