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Materials and methods for higher performance screen-printed flexible MRI receive coils.

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Corea, Joseph Russell Lechêne, Pierre Balthazar Lustig, Michael Arias, Ana Claudia
Copyright Year	2017
Abstract	PURPOSE To develop methods for characterizing materials used in screen-printed MRI coils and improve signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) with new lower-loss materials. METHODS An experimental apparatus was created to characterize dielectric properties of plastic substrates used in receive coils. Coils were fabricated by screen printing conductive ink onto several plastic substrates. Unloaded and sample loaded quality factor (QUnloaded /QLoaded ) measurements and scans on a 3T scanner were used to characterize coil performance. An experimental method was developed to describe the relationship between a coil's QUnloaded and the SNR it provides in images of a phantom. In addition, 3T scans of a phantom and the head of a volunteer were obtained with a proof-of-concept printed eight-channel array, and the results were compared with a commercial 12-channel array. RESULTS Printed coils with optimized substrates exhibited up to 97% of the image SNR when compared with a traditional coil on a loading phantom. QUnloaded and the SNR of coils were successfully correlated. The printed array resulted in images comparable to the quality given by the commercial array. CONCLUSION Using the proposed methods and materials, the SNR of printed coils approached that of commercial coils while using a new fabrication technique that provided more flexibility and close contact with the patient's body. Magn Reson Med 78:775-783, 2017. © 2016 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
Starting Page	775
Ending Page	783
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~arias/public/publications/files/corea2016materials.pdf
PubMed reference number	27612330v1
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.26399
DOI	10.1002/mrm.26399
Journal	Magnetic resonance in medicine
Volume Number	78
Issue Number	2
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Coil Device Component Ink (substance) Patients Phantoms, Imaging Relative Biological Effectiveness Scanner Device Component Signal-To-Noise Ratio
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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