Biography:Christopher J. Hardy

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Christopher J. Hardy
Born
New Jersey
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materPrinceton University
UIUC
Known forCardiac MR Imaging and Spectroscopy, NMR Pulse Design, Real-Time Interactive MRI
AwardsFellow, 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
Scientific career
FieldsApplied Physics, Cardiology, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
InstitutionsGE Global Research

Christopher J. Hardy (born 1955) is an United States 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

  • 1986,1993 Inventor of the Year, Eastern New York Patent Law Association
  • 1988 Distinguished Inventor, Intellectual Property Owners, Inc. (Washington, DC)[9]
  • 1989, 1994, 1997, 2005 GE Whitney Gallery of Technical Achievers / Whitney Award
  • 1996 GE Gold Patent Medallion
  • 2002 Fellow, American Physical Society [10]
  • 2003 Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering [11]
  • 2008 Redington Award for Imaging Technologies
  • 2010 Fellow, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine [12]
  • 2010 GE Coolidge Fellow
  • 2011, 2012 Distinguished Reviewer, Magn Reson Med, J Magn Reson Imag

Selected works

Selected Patents

  • Hardy, Christopher J, " Method for calculating wave velocities in blood vessels" [13]
  • L. Marinelli, CJ Hardy, "Method for reconstructing images" [14]

References

  1. "Interactive coronary MRI". Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 40 (1): 105–11. July 1998. doi:10.1002/mrm.1910400115. PMID 9660560. 
  2. "Altered myocardial high-energy phosphate metabolites in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy". American Heart Journal 122 (3 Pt 1): 795–801. September 1991. doi:10.1016/0002-8703(91)90527-o. PMID 1877457. 
  3. "Real-time acquisition, display, and interactive graphic control of NMR cardiac profiles and images". Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 29 (5): 667–73. May 1993. 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. doi:10.1063/1.344411. Bibcode1989JAP....66.1513H. 
  5. "32-element receiver-coil array for cardiac imaging". Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 55 (5): 1142–9. May 2006. doi:10.1002/mrm.20870. PMID 16596635. 
  6. "128-channel body MRI with a flexible high-density receiver-coil array". Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 28 (5): 1219–25. November 2008. doi:10.1002/jmri.21463. PMID 18972330. 
  7. Search Results for author Hardy CJ on PubMed.
  8. Google[failed verification]
  9. http://www.ipo.org/AM/Template.cfm?testparamhere=1&Template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=26134[full citation needed]
  10. "Archive (1990-present)". Aps.org. 2011-07-27. http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=2002&unit_id=&institution=. Retrieved 2012-07-09. 
  11. "College of Fellows". AIMBE. 2012-05-11. Archived from the original on 2013-10-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20131020032831/http://www.aimbe.org/members/college-of-fellows/. Retrieved 2012-07-09. 
  12. "Society Award Winners « ISMRM". Ismrm.org. http://www.ismrm.org/about/society-award-winners/. Retrieved 2012-07-09. 
  13. http://www.google.com/patents/US6141578?dq=US+6141578&ei=IGsJULDOEarD0QHLkpX1Aw[full citation needed]
  14. "Patent US7977943 - Method and system for reconstructing images - Google Patents". Google.com. http://www.google.com/patents?hl=en&lr=&vid=USPAT7977943&id=inPnAQAAEBAJ&oi=fnd&dq=CJ+Hardy&printsec=abstract#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 2012-07-09.