Christopher J. Hardy

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Christopher J. Hardy
Born
New Jersey
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma mater Princeton 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
Fields Applied Physics, Cardiology, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Institutions GE Global Research
Academic advisors William 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]

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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

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References

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  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.
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