TY - JOUR
T1 - Multilayered receive coil produced using a non-planar photofabrication process for an intraluminal magnetic resonance imaging
AU - Matsunaga, T.
AU - Matsuoka, Y.
AU - Ichimura, S.
AU - Wei, Q.
AU - Kuroda, K.
AU - Kato, Z.
AU - Esashi, M.
AU - Haga, Y.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by Creation of Innovation Centers for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research Areas Program from the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI (no. 23300184).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2017/7/1
Y1 - 2017/7/1
N2 - An intraluminal probe coil is a promising signal detecting technique in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for small pathological lesions: it may allow acquisition of relatively high resolution images while maintaining similar signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) compared with external coils. In the present work, multilayered, saddle-shaped intraluminal coils with outer diameters of approximately 2 mm were fabricated using a newly developed non-planar photofabrication technique. Single-, double- and quadruple-layered coils suitable for side-view scanning were prototyped and evaluated in terms of spatial resolution and SNR at 1.5 T. The coils generated intraluminal MR images with sufficient SNR and spatial resolution.
AB - An intraluminal probe coil is a promising signal detecting technique in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for small pathological lesions: it may allow acquisition of relatively high resolution images while maintaining similar signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) compared with external coils. In the present work, multilayered, saddle-shaped intraluminal coils with outer diameters of approximately 2 mm were fabricated using a newly developed non-planar photofabrication technique. Single-, double- and quadruple-layered coils suitable for side-view scanning were prototyped and evaluated in terms of spatial resolution and SNR at 1.5 T. The coils generated intraluminal MR images with sufficient SNR and spatial resolution.
KW - Flattening technique
KW - Intraluminal MRI
KW - Non-planar photofabrication
KW - Saddle-shaped receive coil
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U2 - 10.1016/j.sna.2017.04.021
DO - 10.1016/j.sna.2017.04.021
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85019162283
SN - 0924-4247
VL - 261
SP - 130
EP - 139
JO - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical
JF - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical
ER -