Long Beach : Director of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Named

A well-known lecturer on magnetic resonance imaging has been named director of magnetic resonance imaging radiology research at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center.

He is Dr. William G. Bradley, who spent the past eight years in a similar position at Huntington Medical Research Institute at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena. Prior to that he was a staff radiologist at San Jose Hospital in San Jose.

Magnetic resonance imaging is a technique by which certain parts of the body--most often the brain, spine, knee and shoulder--are examined using magnetism and radio waves.

Bradley, a past president of the international Society of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, has published four books, more than 100 articles and several book chapters on the subject. Last year he co-authored a book on magnetic resonance imaging that was cited by a major publisher’s organization as the year’s best new book in biological and medical sciences.