An accomplished investment professional with over two decades of experience, Bruce Randall Watts Jr. most recently served as the senior managing director of The Boston Company. Outside of his career, Bruce Randall “Randy” Watts Jr. supports multiple organizations, including Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), the largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. MGH recently announced the development of a portable and low-cost brain imaging scanner. Although MRI is the best technology for assessing issues with the brain, traditional MRI scanners are immobile and require costly infrastructure to support their functioning. Investigators at MGH have unveiled a compact and low-power “head-only” MRI scanner, which can be easily mounted in ambulances, placed in small clinics and doctors’ offices, and wheeled into patient rooms. The portable scanner works with a standard power outlet and emits less noise compared to traditional MRI scanners. According to Clarissa Zimmerman Cooley, PhD, a radiology investigator at Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at MGH, hospitals experience challenges and risks transporting patients to MRI scanner suites, which necessitated the need to make MRI services more accessible. When tested on volunteers, the new scanner generated 3D brain images within 10 minutes, raising hopes that the technology will extend MRI capabilities to remote or rural locations.

1. Bruce Randall Watts Jr.

2. Introduction
An accomplished investment professional with over two decades of experience, Bruce
Randall Watts Jr. most recently served as the senior managing director of The Boston
Company. Outside of his career, Bruce Randall “Randy” Watts Jr. supports multiple
organizations, including Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), the largest teaching
hospital of Harvard Medical School.

3. MGH recently announced the development of a portable and low-cost brain imaging
scanner. Although MRI is the best technology for assessing issues with the brain, traditional
MRI scanners are immobile and require costly infrastructure to support their functioning.
Investigators at MGH have unveiled a compact and low-power “head-only” MRI scanner,
which can be easily mounted in ambulances, placed in small clinics and doctors’ offices, and
wheeled into patient rooms. The portable scanner works with a standard power outlet and
emits less noise compared to traditional MRI scanners.

4. According to Clarissa Zimmerman Cooley, PhD, a radiology investigator at Athinoula A.
Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at MGH, hospitals experience challenges and risks
transporting patients to MRI scanner suites, which necessitated the need to make MRI
services more accessible. When tested on volunteers, the new scanner generated 3D brain
images within 10 minutes, raising hopes that the technology will extend MRI capabilities to
remote or rural locations.