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EditorialElectromagnetics in Biomedical Applications

Soon Yim Tan,1 Andrea Borsic,2 Panagiotis Kosmas,3 and Yifan Chen4

1 Division of Communication Engineering, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798

2Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, 800 Cummings Hall, Hanover, NH 03755, USA3 School of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK4 South University of Science and Technology of China, 1088 Tangchang Road, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China

Correspondence should be addressed to Soon Yim Tan; [email protected]

Received 2 January 2014; Accepted 2 January 2014; Published 4 February 2014

Copyright © 2014 Soon Yim Tan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Advance research in electromagnetic theory has been a fun-damental key driver to push the frontier of biomedical tech-nology. These studies include evaluation of health hazardsof microwave field emission by ubiquitous wireless commu-nication systems, interaction of electromagnetic waves withbiological tissues and living systems, and also the therapeutic,diagnostic, and imaging applications of electromagnetic.Cancer detection using ultra-wideband signal, hyperthermiaof tumours, healthcare informatics, and wireless bioimplantsare some for the research topics using electromagnetic waves.Out of the accepted papers of this special issue, four paperswill be highlighted below.

“Electric field measurement of the living human body forbiomedical applications: phasemeasurement of the electric fieldintensity” by I. Hieda and K. C. Nam illustrates a techniquefor conducting measurements inside the human body byapplying a weak electric field at a radio frequency (RF). Themethod is simple, safe, cost-effective, and able to be used forbiomedical applications.

Y. Chen et al. present “A feasibility study for microwavebreast cancer detection using contrast-agent-loaded bacterialmicrobots.” The authors proposed a novel differential micro-wave imaging technique to simultaneously track multipleswarms of magnetotactic bacteria microbots that are injectedinto the breast to detect breast tumours.

“Analysis and design ofmagnetic shielding system for breastcancer treatment with hyperthermia inductive heating” by C.Thongsopa and T. Thosdeekoraphat provides an analysis anddesign of rectangular magnetic shielding aperture system forbreast cancer treatmentwith hyperthermia inductive heating.

J. Tak et al. present “Dual-band on-body repeater antennafor in-on-on WBAN applications.” This paper investigates anantenna for in-on-on wireless body area network applica-tions, which was designed to communicate with implanteddevices in the 5.8GHz ISM band and to transmit the biologi-cal information received from the implanted devices to otheron-body devices in the 2.45GHz ISM band.

Soon Yim TanAndrea Borsic

Panagiotis KosmasYifan Chen

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