An MRI receiver coil produced by inkjet printing directly on to a flexible substrate

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 482-487

  Mager, Dario ^a   Peter, Andreas ^a   Tin, Laura Del ^a,b   Fischer, Elmar ^c   Smith, Patrick J ^a   Hennig, Jürgen ^c   Korvink, Jan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Inkjet printing; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Receiver coils; Resonance circuits

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS; FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE; INTEGRATED CAPACITORS; KIWIFRUITS; MRI DEVICES; NETWORK ANALYZER; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; RADIO FREQUENCY COILS; RECEIVER CIRCUITS; RECEIVER COIL; RESONANCE CIRCUITS; SCALING EXPERIMENTS; SERIES CAPACITORS;

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; CIRCUIT RESONANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; INK; INK JET PRINTERS; INK JET PRINTING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRINTED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; RESISTORS; RESONANT CIRCUITS; SUBSTRATES;

PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; FRUIT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; KIWIFRUIT; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRINTING;

ACTINIDIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; FRUIT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PRINTING;

EID: 76249094721     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2036996     Document Type: Article

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