Massachusetts General Hospital recently presented the Lodwick Award to Felix W. Wehrli, a professor of radiologic science, biochemistry and biophysics and the director of the Laboratory for Structural, Physiologic and Functional NMR Imaging in the department of radiology at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Wehrli was chosen for his article, “A Surrogate Measure of Cortical Bone Matrix Density by Long T2-Suppressed MRI,” published in Journal of Bone and Mineral Research in 2015.

The Lodwick Award, founded in 2004, recognizes excellence in academic literature in the fields of musculoskeletal radiology, medicine or physiology. It is named for Gwilym Lodwick, a renowned musculoskeletal radiologist and former member of the department of radiology at Mass General.