From the December 2015 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine



Bottomley was a member of visionary Raymond Andrew’s group which, along with that of Peter Mansfield, built the first MRI system producing radiographicquality images of the human wrist. After completing his Ph.D., he adapted MRI for spatially localized spectroscopy (MRS) for Johns Hopkins University, using surface coils to demonstrate metabolite depletion and reversal in regional myocardial ischemia. Bottomley later joined the General Electric Research Center in Schenectady, N.Y., which built the first high-field whole-body MRI-MRS system, overcoming problems of coil design, radiofrequency penetration and signal-to-noise ratio. In addition to these and countless other achievements, Bottomley has published approximately 180 peer-reviewed papers and holds nearly 50 patents. He is an International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) fellow and gold medal recipient, and a General Electric Gold Patent and Coolidge Fellowship awardee.


William G. Bradley, Jr. is professor and chairman of the department of radiology at the University of California, San Diego. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree at the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. at Princeton University, and completed his medical training at the University of California, San Francisco. He was an ISMRM president and has received its two highest honors for his research: gold medal and honorary member. Dr. Bradley has also received gold medals from the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and the American College of Radiology (ACR).


Bradley first became involved in MRI at the University of California, San Francisco, in the late 1970s, translating the physics of MRI for other radiologists. His subsequent research has focused on MRI of flow phenomena, hemorrhage, stroke and normal pressure hydrocephalus. Bradley has served as a member of the board of trustees of the RSNA Research and Education Foundation, and as chairman of its fund development committee. Dr. Bradley also served on the ACR board of chancellors, chaired the ACR Commission on Neuroradiology and MRI, and served as ACR vice president. He is a member of the governing boards of the International Society for Strategic Studies in Radiology, the Association of University Radiologists, the Academy of Radiology Research and the Academy of Radiology Leadership and Management. Bradley has published more than 200 papers, 54 chapters and 21 textbooks.

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