Receive coils used in small animal MRI are rigid, inflexible surface loops that do not conform to the anatomy being imaged. The recent trend toward design of stretchable coils that are tailored to fit any anatomical curvature has been focused on human imaging. This work demonstrates the application of stretchable coils for small animal imaging at 7T. A stretchable coil measuring 3.5 × 3.5 cm was developed for acquisition of rat brain and spine images. The SNR maps of the stretchable coil were compared with those of a traditional flexible PCB coil and a commercial surface coil. Stretch and conformance testing of the coil was performed. Ex vivo images of rat brain and spine from the stretchable a coil was acquired using T FLASH and T Turbo RARE sequences. The axial phantom SNR maps showed that the stretchable coil provided 48.5% and 42.8% higher SNR than the commercial coil for T-w and T-w images within the defined ROI. A 33% increase in average penetration depth was observed within the ROI using the stretchable coil when compared to the commercial coil. The ex-vivo rat brain and spine images showed distinguishable anatomical details. Stretching the coil reduced the resonant frequency with reduction in SNR, while the conformance to varying sample volumes increased the resonant frequency with decreased SNR. This study also features an open-source plug-and-play system with preamplifiers that can be used to interface surface coils with the 7T Bruker scanner.
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