Abstract #3179
Streamlined construction of a six-channel mouse array coil with 3D printing
Wen-Yang Chiang 1 and Mary P McDougall 1
1
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Texas
A&M University, College Station, TX, United States
Mechanical stability is crucial in geometric decoupling,
especially for small-form-factor wire array coils
because the dimensional tolerance is less forgiving. To
this end, we incorporated 3D printing to streamline the
development of our mouse array coil when solid wire was
used. When the solid wire and the PCB were embedded
inside of the 3D printed former, we were also able to
not only place the array coil as close to the specimen
as possible, but also able to maintain the geometric
decoupling overtime. Because no glue was used, we could
replace any coil components easily. SNR of phantom
images acquired by the proposed mouse array coil and by
a commercial Varian quadrature mouse birdcage coil were
compared. We also quantitatively compared the
consistency of the coil sensitivity of each array coil
element.
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