Christopher J. Hardy

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
Academic advisorsWilliam A. Edelstein

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

  • 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. S2CID 21480135.
  • 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. S2CID 20394600.

Selected Patents

  • Hardy, Christopher J, " Method for calculating wave velocities in blood vessels" [13]
  • L. Marinelli, CJ Hardy, "Method for reconstructing images" [14]
  • Hardy, C.J. and Sasikanth Manipatruni, General Electric Co, 2014. Photonic system and method for optical data transmission in medical imaging systems. U.S. Patent 8,847,598.

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. S2CID 25304785.
  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. S2CID 6302731.
  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. S2CID 20394600.
  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][permanent dead link‍]
  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. ^ "Method for calculating wave velocities in blood vessels".
  14. ^ "Patent US7977943 - Method and system for reconstructing images - Google Patents". Retrieved 2012-07-09.