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] 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.
Hardy has written 98[7] research papers and 54 patents.