Christopher J. Hardy (born 1955) is an American

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...

and inventor of several

magnetic resonance imaging Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to generate pictures of the anatomy and the physiological processes inside the body. MRI scanners use strong magnetic fields, magnetic field gradients, and ...

(MRI) subsystem technologies for use in real time MRI and cardiac MR imaging and spectroscopy.

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 General Electric Company (GE) was an American Multinational corporation, multinational Conglomerate (company), conglomerate founded in 1892, incorporated in the New York (state), state of New York and headquartered in Boston. Over the year ...

. He developed the first graphical approach that allowed physicians to explore anatomy in real time during cardiac MRI, as opposed to viewing groups of images at a later time, and he also developed a technique that improved imaging speed. Both accomplishments have gained widespread use. He has also led the teams that developed 32 channel and 128 channel General Electric MRI systems. Hardy has written 98 research papers and 54 patents.

Awards and honors

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

Selected works

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Selected Patents

* Hardy, Christopher J, " Method for calculating wave velocities in blood vessels" * L. Marinelli, CJ Hardy, "Method for reconstructing images" *Hardy, C.J. and

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, General Electric Co, 2014. Photonic system and method for optical data transmission in medical imaging systems. U.S. Patent 8,847,598.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hardy, Christopher J. 1957 births Living people 21st-century American physicists Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Fellows of the American Physical Society