Dario Mager1, Ute Loeffelman1, Andreas Peter1, Laura Del Tin1, Elmar Fischer2, Patrick James Smith1, Juergen Hennig2, Jan Gerrit Korvink1
1Dept. of Microsystems Engineering IMTEK, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; 2Dept. of Diagnostic Radiology, Medical Physics, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
We present for the first time the results of a self-resonant MR receiver coil, manufactured on a flexible Kapton foil, with the metal lines pattern by inkjet printing. An MRI image sequence was taken using a Bruker BioSpec scanner at 9.4 T. The results of the measurement were comparable to a standard receiver coil. Inkjet printing can therefore be considered as a feasible approach in the rapid and low cost production of receiver coils. Inkjet printing is