Dr. Ran Klein

Ran Klein is the imaging physicist at The Ottawa Hospital, Department of Nuclear Medicine. He was previously manager of the Cardiac Imaging Core Lab at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, National Cardiac PET Centre. His research is focused on extracting quantitative physiologic information from medical images. In particular Ran has worked on quantification of myocardial blood flow using rubidium-82 positron emission tomography (PET). His research has resulted in commercially available software for image analysis (FlowQuant©). Ran’s work on an automated rubidium-82 infusion system is currently being commercialized by Jubilant-DraxImage. Ran obtained his PhD (2010) and MASc (2005) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa, and has been conducting research at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute since 2001. He is an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa, Department of Medicine and is adjunct professor at Carleton University, Departments of Physicis and Systems and Computer Engineering.

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