EDUCATION

  •  Ph.D. in Physics (Medical Physics), Carleton University, 2006.

  •  M.Sc. in Medical Physics, University of Bucharest, 2001.

  •  B.Sc. in Physics (Medical Physics), University of Bucharest, 1999.

 

 

AWARDS

  •  Undergraduate scholarship (1995 - 1999)

  •  Graduate scholarships (2005, 2006)

 

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  •  Member of Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP)

  •  Junior Member of American Association of Medical Physicists (AAPM)

  •  Member of Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists (COMP)

 

RESEARCH

 

  •  2006 - 2012 Postdoctoral Fellow in the X-ray fluorescence (XRF) laboratory of Dr. David Fleming from the Physics Department, Mount Allison University, Sackville. The research work was mainly focused on detection of arsenic and selenium in the human body using XRF methods.

  •  2001 - 2006 Research Assistant in the hyperpolarized xenon (H-Xe) Magnetic Resonance laboratory of Dr. Giles Santyr from Carleton University (now at the Robarts Research Institute in London, Ontario). The research project consisted in the development of a H-Xe-based contrast agent for cancer detection.

 

 

 
TEACHING

Lecturer

  •  2009 - 2012 Methods of Mathematical Physics (winter semester)

  •  2009 - 2011 Data Acquisition and Analysis (fall semester)

  •  2008 Statistical Mechanics (winter semester)

Teaching Assistant

  • 2001- 2006 Undergraduate Physics course (10 semesters)

 

 

Posters and Oral Presentations

2003 - 2011

  1. [1]  Oral presentation, Medical Physics session of the Canadian Association of Physicists Congress, Saint John’s, June 13-17, 2011

  2. [2]  Poster presentation, Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists Annual Scientific Meeting, Ottawa, June 16-19, 2010

  3. [3]  Oral presentation, Medical Physics session of the Canadian Association of Physicists Congress, Moncton, June 7-10, 2009

  4. [4]  Oral presentation, Medical Physics session of the Canadian Association of Physicists Congress, Quebec, June 8-11, 2008

  5. [5]  Oral presentation on the MRI techniques with accent on H-Xe applications, the Physics Department, Mount Allison University, Sackville, November 15, 2006

  6. [6]  Oral presentation, the 3-rd International Symposium on Xenon Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Materials (XeMAT III), Ottawa, June 1-3, 2006

  7. [7]  Poster presentation, the 4-th Annual Symposium of the Imaging Network Ontario, Toronto, March 1-3, 2005

  8. [8]  Poster presentation, the 3-rd Annual Symposium of the Imaging Network Ontario, Toronto, March 3-5, 2004

  9. [9]  Poster presentation, the 3-rd scientific conference of the Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance, Ottawa, October 25-27, 2003

  10. [10]  Poster presentation, the 11-th Scientific Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Toronto, July 10-16, 2003

 

Publications

2004 - 2011

  1. [1]  M.R. Gherase and G.E. Santyr, Analysis of theoretical NMR spectra generated by exact solutions of the Bloch-McConnell and the Bloch-Torrey equations for a two-compartment radial diffusive exchange model, manuscript #JMR-11-326 submitted to the Journal of Magnetic Resonance (2011)

  2. [2]  D.E.B. Fleming, M.R. Gherase, K.M. Alexander, A miniature X-ray tube approach to measuring lead in bone using L-XRF, X-ray Spectrometry, 40, 343- 347 (2011)

  3. [3]  M.R. Gherase and D.E.B. Fleming, A calibration method for proposed XRF measurements of arsenic and selenium in nail clippings, Physics in Medicine and Biology, 56, N215-N225 (2011)

  4. [4]  M.R. Gherase and D.E.B. Fleming, Calculation of depth-dependent elemental concentration with x-ray fluorescence using a layered calibration method, Nuclear Instruments and Methods In Physics Research Section B 269, 1150-1156 (2011)

  5. [5]  H.C. MacDonald, C.P. Laroque, D.E.B. Fleming, M.R. Gherase, Dendroanalysis of metal pollution from the Sydney Steel Plant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Dendrochronologia 29, 9-15 (2011)

  6. [6]  M.R. Gherase, J.E. Mader, D.E.B. Fleming, Radiation dose from a proposed measurement of arsenic and selenium in human skin, Physics in Medicine and Biology, 55, 5499-5514 (2010)

  1. [7]  C.W. Roy, M.R. Gherase, and D.E.B. Fleming, Simultaneous assessment of arsenic and selenium in human nail phantoms using a portable x-ray tube and detector, Physics in Medicine and Biology, 55, N151-159 (2010)

  2. [8]  D.E.B. Fleming, I.S. Eddy, M.R. Gherase, M.K. Gibbons, and G.A. Gagnon, Real-time monitoring of arsenic filtration by granular ferric hydroxide, Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 68, 821-824 (2010)

  3. [9]  M.R. Gherase, Marc E. Valee, and D.E.B. Fleming, Simultaneous detection of arsenic and selenium in polyester resin skin samples, Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 68, 743-745 (2010)

  4. [10]  M.R. Gherase and D.E.B. Fleming, Optimal Kα XRF detection geometry of arsenic in skin using an extended fundamental parameter method, X-ray Spectrometry, 38, 513-518 (2009)

  5. [11]  M.R. Gherase and D.E.B. Fleming, K-shell X-ray fluorescence measurements of arsenic depth-dependent concentration in polyester resin discs using the fundamental parameter method, Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 67, 50-54 (2009)

  6. [12]  M.R. Gherase, Characterization of hyperpolarized Xe-129 NMR spectra, PhD Thesis, VDM Verlag Dr. Muller, Saarbrucken (2009)

  7. [13]  D.E.B. Fleming, M.R. Gherase, C.-Y. Kim, Detecting arsenic and defining its micro-distribution in skin phantoms, The Activity Report of Canadian Light Source 2008, 121-122

  8. [14]  M.R. Gherase and D.E.B. Fleming, Fundamental parameter approach to XRF spectroscopy measurements of arsenic in polyester resin skin phantoms, X-ray Spectrometry, 37, 482-489 (2008)

  9. [15]  D.E.B. Fleming and M.R. Gherase, A rapid, high sensitive technique for measuring arsenic in skin phantoms using a portable x-ray tube and detector Physics in Medicine and Biology, 52, N459-465 (2007)

  10. [16]  M.R. Gherase, J.C. Wallace, A.R. Cross, G.E. Santyr, Two-compartment radial diffusive exchange analysis of the NMR lineshape of Xe dissolved in a perfluorooctyl bromide emulsion, Journal of Chemical Physics, 125, 044906 (2006)

  11. [17]  G.W. Buchanan, R. Smits, E. Munteanu, G.E. Santyr, J.C. Wallace, M.R. Gherase, Synthesis and dissolved hyperpolarized xenon NMR studies of sucrose octaoleate-F104, Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 125(10), 1457 (2004)

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