System and method for flexible, cuttable radio-frequency coils for a magnetic resonance imaging system

Abstract

A radio-frequency (RF) coil system for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes a plurality of flexible RF coil elements, each formed from a thin, malleable conductive substrate; a monitoring circuit electrically coupled to each RF coil element for detecting a disconnection of any RF coil element from the remaining active coil elements; a reconfiguration module dynamically adapting a plurality of imaging parameters based on the remaining active RF coil elements; and at least one detachable preamplifier circuit configured to be operatively coupled to and decoupled from at least one RF coil element.

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