Christopher J. Hardy

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]

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

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
  • Edelstein WA, Glover GH, Hardy CJ, Redington RW (August 1986). "The intrinsic signal-to-noise ratio in NMR imaging". Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 3 (4): 604–18. doi:10.1002/mrm.1910030413. PMID 3747821.
  • Weiss RG, Bottomley PA, Hardy CJ, Gerstenblith G (December 1990). "Regional myocardial metabolism of high-energy phosphates during isometric exercise in patients with coronary artery disease". The New England Journal of Medicine. 323 (23): 1593–600. doi:10.1056/NEJM199012063232304. PMID 2233948.
  • Zhu Y, Hardy CJ, Sodickson DK, et al. (October 2004). "Highly parallel volumetric imaging with a 32-element RF coil array". Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 52 (4): 869–77. doi:10.1002/mrm.20209. PMC 2819016. PMID 15389961.
  • 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.

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. 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 2819007. 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%5B%5D%5B%5D
  10. "Archive (1990-present)". Aps.org. 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
  11. "College of Fellows". AIMBE. 2012-05-11. Archived from the original on 2013-10-20. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
  12. "Society Award Winners « ISMRM". Ismrm.org. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
  13. https://www.google.com/patents/US6141578?dq=US+6141578&ei=IGsJULDOEarD0QHLkpX1Aw%5B%5D
  14. "Patent US7977943 - Method and system for reconstructing images - Google Patents". Google.com. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
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