Fabric on fabric: A conductive fabric-based wearable coil using cutting plotter for MRI at 3T.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Wearable coils fabricated using conductive threads have high resistance that limits SNR. The purpose of this work is to demonstrate the utility of conductive fabric as a coil conductor that can be fabricated using a cutting plotter.

Methods

A single-channel coil was developed by feeding a conductive fabric sheet into an automatic cutting plotter. The fabric coil was loaded on a spherical phantom to evaluate SNR and B₁ ⁺ homogeneity and compared with a single-channel conductive thread coil and a rigid printed circuit board (PCB) coil. A 14-channel wearable neck array was developed for structural imaging of the cervical spine and 4D flow MRI of the carotid arteries. The SNR from structural images and velocity-to-noise ratio (VNR) from flow images

SUBMITTER: Ramesh TV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12620159 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature