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Abstract #1549

Design of a reconfigurable endoluminal coil using MEMS switches

Hamza Raki1,2, Kevin Tse Ve Koon1, Henri Souchay2, Fraser Robb3, Simon A. Lambert1, and Olivier Beuf1

1Univ Lyon, INSA‐Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, UJM-Saint Etienne, CNRS, Inserm, CREATIS UMR 5220, U1206, F‐69616, Lyon, France, 2General Electric Healthcare, Buc, France, 3General Electric Healthcare, Aurora, OH, United States

Endoluminal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an alternative solution to conventional MRI, which is still not sufficient to image the bowel and colon wall. However, it mainly suffers from coil-sensitivity-map variations with coil-orientations within respect to the main magnetic field (B0). The purpose of this work was to study numerically different coil-geometries and their performances when positioned in different orientations regarding B0. From the simulation results, a solution of a reconfigurable endoluminal-coil using four MEMs switches is proposed. Electro-Magnetic (EM) simulation demonstrated the feasibility to reduce the coil-sensitivity variations by using a combination of Single-loop (SL) and Double-Turn-Loop (DTL) configurations.

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