Abstract #1314
Design and Implementation of Flexible Printed Receive Coils Arrays
Joseph Russell Corea 1 , Anita Flynn 1 , Galen Reed 1,2 , Peter Shin 2 , Greig Scott 3 , Ana Claudia Arias 1 , and Michael Lustig 1
1
Electrical Engineering and Computer
Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley,
California, United States,
2
Radiology
and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San
Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States,
3
Electrical
Engineering, Stanford, Stanford, California, United
States
Creating receive coil arrays using ultra-high quality
components is the standard method of fabrication for
arrays today. However, concessions can be made trading
off excess quality factor for a more conformable device
using screen printed materials. This is possible because
in clinical scanners, the system is body noise dominated
so lowering the quality factor of the coil does not
necessarily lower the signal-to-noise ratio of the
image. Here we discuss the implications of using printed
materials for creating receive coil arrays and include a
demonstration of a 4-channel fully printed prototype on
different areas of a volunteer.
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