Christopher J. Hardy

Christopher J. Hardy
Born New Jersey
Residence Niskayuna
Citizenship American
Fields Applied Physics, Cardiology, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Institutions GE Global Research
Alma mater Princeton University
UIUC
Known for Cardiac MR Imaging and Spectroscopy, NMR Pulse Design, Real-Time Interactive MRI
Notable awards Fellow, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2010; Fellow APS 2002, Fellow American Institute for medical and biological Engineering 2003; GE Coolidge Fellow, GE Whitney Award 1989,94,97,2005

Christopher J. Hardy (born 1955) is an American physicist and inventor of several magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) subsystem technologies for use in real time MRI[1] and cardiac MR imaging and spectroscopy.[2]

Biography

Hardy obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in March, 1983. He is currently a principal scientist and Coolidge Fellow at General Electric. He developed the first graphical approach that allowed physicians to explore anatomy in real time during cardiac MRI,[3] as opposed to viewing groups of images at a later time, and he also developed a technique that improved imaging speed.[4] Both accomplishments have gained widespread use. He has also led the teams that developed 32 channel[5] and 128 channel[6] General Electric MRI systems.

Hardy has written 98[7] research papers and 54 patents.[8]

Awards and honors

Selected works

Selected Patents

References

  1. Hardy CJ, Darrow RD, Pauly JM, et al. (July 1998). "Interactive coronary MRI". Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 40 (1): 105–11. doi:10.1002/mrm.1910400115. PMID 9660560.
  2. Hardy CJ, Weiss RG, Bottomley PA, Gerstenblith G (September 1991). "Altered myocardial high-energy phosphate metabolites in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy". American Heart Journal. 122 (3 Pt 1): 795–801. doi:10.1016/0002-8703(91)90527-o. PMID 1877457.
  3. Hardy CJ, Darrow RD, Nieters EJ, et al. (May 1993). "Real-time acquisition, display, and interactive graphic control of NMR cardiac profiles and images". Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 29 (5): 667–73. doi:10.1002/mrm.1910290514. PMID 8505903.
  4. Hardy, Christopher J.; Cline, Harvey E. (1989). "Broadband nuclear magnetic resonance pulses with two-dimensional spatial selectivity". Journal of Applied Physics. 66 (4): 1513–6. Bibcode:1989JAP....66.1513H. doi:10.1063/1.344411.
  5. Hardy CJ, Cline HE, Giaquinto RO, Niendorf T, Grant AK, Sodickson DK (May 2006). "32-element receiver-coil array for cardiac imaging". Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 55 (5): 1142–9. doi:10.1002/mrm.20870. PMC 2819007Freely accessible. PMID 16596635.
  6. Hardy CJ, Giaquinto RO, Piel JE, et al. (November 2008). "128-channel body MRI with a flexible high-density receiver-coil array". Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 28 (5): 1219–25. doi:10.1002/jmri.21463. PMID 18972330.
  7. Search Results for author Hardy CJ on PubMed.
  8. Google
  9. http://www.ipo.org/AM/Template.cfm?testparamhere=1&Template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=26134[]
  10. "Archive (1990-present)". Aps.org. 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
  11. "College of Fellows". AIMBE. 2012-05-11. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
  12. "Society Award Winners « ISMRM". Ismrm.org. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
  13. http://www.google.com/patents/US6141578?dq=US+6141578&ei=IGsJULDOEarD0QHLkpX1Aw[]
  14. "Patent US7977943 - Method and system for reconstructing images - Google Patents". Google.com. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
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