Biography
Dr. Gerd Melkus is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology, with a cross-appointment to the Division of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Ottawa. He is an MRI Physicist at The Ottawa Hospital, a member of the Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine (CCPM), and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Physics at Carleton University. He received his PhD in Physics (MRI) from the University of Würzburg, Germany, and completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Dr. Melkus' research focuses on the development and clinical translation of advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) techniques, quantitative image analysis, and MRI physics. His primary clinical and research interests include musculoskeletal and neurological imaging, quantitative MRI, spectroscopy, and novel MRI methods for tissue characterization and biomarker development.
His publication list can be accessed on his Google Scholar page.