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Handy magnetic resonance coils

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Ultraflexible coils for magnetic resonance imaging enhance the image quality of body parts that move or that show strong inter-patient variability, as demonstrated by the implementation of the coils on a glove for imaging the moving hand.

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Fig. 1: Flexible coil technology based on coaxial cables and high-impedance ports.
Fig. 2: Multi-turn, multi-gap coils.

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    In the version of this News and Views article originally published, the author name, title and year were incorrect in ref. 14 and should have read “Yang, X. et al. Coaxial cable magnetic resonance image (MRI) coil. US patent US9678180B2 (2017).” This error has now been corrected.

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