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Abstract #0434

Bespoke Coils: Screen-Printed, Tailored Flexible MRI Receiver Coils

MAGNA25Joseph Corea1, Anita Flynn1, Greig Scott2, Ana Claudia Arias1, Michael Lustig1

1EECS, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States; 2Electrical Engineering, Stanford, Stanford, CA, United States

Our aim is to fabricate custom-made (e.g. bespoke) tailored flexible coils that can fit to a wide variety of patients and anatomy, thus improving sensitivity and signal-to-noise. Utilizing advances in printed electronics, we present a new technique for designing and fabricating flexible MRI receiver coils. These coils are printed on cloth-like mesh substrates using a screen printing technique. All components are processed from solution and printed onto several plastic mesh substrates.

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