Kenneth Kwong is an Associate Professor in radiology at Harvard Medical School. His work, along with that of Seiji Ogawa, was significant in the development of fMRI.
On May 9, 1991, working at the Massachusetts General Hospital, he succeeded in imaging the changing magnetic resonance (MR) signal at the visual cortex in response to flickering visual stimuli, using MR echo-planar imaging technology to acquire images of T2* weighted BOLD contrast. In August of the same year, Dr. Thomas Brady presented Dr. Kwong's real time movie of the evolution of the brain activation at a plenary lecture at the Society of Magnetic Resonance Conference in San Francisco.
In 1992 Kwong and coauthors published one of the three papers showing that brain activation could be mapped using BOLD. [1]