Many of today’s MR coils are still somehow rigid and inflexible in their size. Even highly flexible arrays basically maintain only one specific body-part in a defined range. Anatomically adaptive coils potentially provide the necessary freedom to have a one-size-fits-all design for MRI in clinic. This would lower costs, improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and increase the patient comfort. To evaluate the potential SNR improvement of adaptive arrays, maintaining an optimal filling factor, a 6-channel Demonstrator array setup, comprised of stretchable loop elements at 1.5T with equal electrical properties as standard elements, was used.
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