In this work, we present a new approach for MR mammography with a wearable light-weight coil array (“BraCoil”) covering both breasts and the sentinel axillary lymph nodes. The coil can be worn like a vest over a T-shirt and used either in prone or supine position. The presented design might be able to overcome numerous shortcomings of the current state-of -the-art in breast imaging by improving sensitivity, comfort and intimacy, shortening measurement time and may thereby eventually enable large-scale breast cancer screening without ionizing radiation.
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