Screen-printed and thermoformed antenna for single use monitoring devices

A wireless patient monitoring device, comprising:

• an integrated circuitry including a sensing component and a wireless transmitter;
• wherein the integrated circuitry is enclosed in a plastic film on which one or more printed electrical traces with a conductive ink are positioned, where the printed electrical traces comprise an antenna used by the wireless transmitter to transmit data acquired by the sensing component to a wireless receiver outside the wireless patient monitoring device.

A wireless radio-frequency (RF) coil unit of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine, comprising:

• a substrate material on which one or more printed electrical traces of a conductive ink are positioned, wherein the one or more printed electrical traces comprise an imaging antenna that measures a realigning of protons within a portion of an anatomy of a subject of the MRI machine after gradient stimulation of the portion during an MR imaging scan, the substrate material thermoformed to follow a contour of a surface of the portion of the anatomy.