Annual Bruce Hasegawa Lecture "Compact 3T MRI Scanner with High Performance Gradients"

Dr. Bernstein received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Theoretical Nuclear Physics in 1985. Since then, he has accumulated over 30 years of experience in the field of Magnetic Resonance. After a post-doctoral fellowship at Madison WI, he spent 11 years working in industry, focusing on R&D at GE’s Applied Science Laboratory. Since 1998, Dr. Bernstein has been at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, where he is a certified medical physicist in the Department of Radiology. He holds the academic rank of Professor Medical Physics, and appointments in the Department of Radiology and the Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering.

Dr. Bernstein has published 115 peer-reviewed articles, 190 abstracts, 5 book chapters, and has been granted 35 U.S. patents. He has co-authored two books: Handbook of MRI Pulse Sequences, and Thinking About Equations, A Practical Guide for Developing Mathematical Intuition in the Physical Sciences and Engineering. He has served on the Boards of several professional societies, and is a Fellow of the ISMRM. Since 2011, he has served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. The work described today is funded by a $5.7 million NIH Bioengineering Research Partnership (BRP) grant, on which serves as the Mayo Clinic PI, and as one of three overall co-PIs.