Abstract #0504

Operational Inkjet-Printed Metal-On-Kapton MRI Receiver Coil

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