Kenneth Kwong, Ph.D.


Associate Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
Investigator, Assoc Prof (M)
Radiology, Mass General Research Institute

Research Interests

acupuncture therapy; brain; brain mapping; cerebrovascular circulation; echo-planar imaging; magnetic resonance imaging

Research Narrative

  • Sequence development for cardiac gated brain-stem imaging
  • MR study of the use of oxygen in acute stroke
  • Susceptibility correction in fMRI
  • Stimulated echo sequence for black blood studies
  • Sleep disorder studies
  • Acupuncture investigation with fMRI 
  • Gua sha, cupping and heme oxygenase-1 research for myofascial as well as respiratory disorders
  • Brown fat fMRI
  • New approaches to resting state and functional connectivity analysis
  • Early time points perfusion imaging
  • Research on some of the common links in chronic pain disorders and their management. 
  • Novel applications in vagus nerve stimulation, transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation and transcranial magnetic stimulation