Microwave and Antenna System in Medical Applications-2nd Edition
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomedical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 529
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Interests: ultra wideband radar; radar target recognition; transient electromagnetics; radar signal processing; antenna arrays; mutual coupling; biomedical electromagnetics
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Interests: biomedical electromagnetics; medical diagnosis; stoke detection; microwave tomography; biomedical engineering
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Sensors aims to report the latest research findings in the field of microwave and antenna technologies in medical applications.
The non-ionizing nature of microwave radiation and low-cost microwave electronics offers to provide innovative solutions to issues of medical diagnosis, treatment, and health monitoring. Researchers in antennas, microwave electronics, computational electromagnetics, imaging, and signal processing are working collaboratively with medical practitioners in order to enhance human wellbeing by developing next-generation healthcare technologies. A well-known example would be the potential use of microwave radiation for breast screening, which provides a non-ionizing, compression-free alternative to the use of X-ray mammography and tomosynthesis for cancer diagnosis. Women of all ages across the world will benefit from this. Another example would be the prospect of utilizing microwave sensors for stroke detection so that prehospital diagnosis can be facilitated in ambulances through portable systems. Stroke patients and the elderly in peripheral areas of large but sparsely populated countries such as Australia and Sweden, who suffer from lack of proximity to hospital facilities, will benefit from any such developments. Clinical trials of microwave breast screening and stroke detection are currently underway across Europe, North America, and Oceania.
The recent boom in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) offers new avenues that may accelerate technical development, particularly in signal processing and imaging. Although the recent focus has mostly been on AI and ML, reliable medical solutions cannot be established without having a high-quality microwave and antenna system capable of capturing RF signals.
The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, microwave and antenna systems that can be applied in medical diagnosis, health monitoring, ablation, and hyperthermia. We welcome medically oriented contributions to system development and methodologies, including algorithms and imaging techniques.
Dr. Hoi-Shun Antony Lui
Prof. Dr. Mikael Persson
Guest Editors
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