Implanted Antennas in Medical Wireless Communications

Yahya Rahmat-Samii received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is a Distinguished Professor and past Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He was a Senior Research Scientist with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology prior to joining UCLA in 1989. In summer 1986, he was a Guest Professor with the Technical University of Denmark (TUD). He has also been a consultant to numerous aerospace companies. Jaehoon Kim received the B.S. degree in electronics from Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, in 1993, the M.S. degree in electronic and electrical engineering from the Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Korea, in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2005. From 1996 to 2001, he was a Research Engineer with the SK Telecom Research and Development Center, Kyunggi, Korea. In 2005, he was a Post-Doctorate Researcher at UCLA antenna lab. From 2006, Dr. Kim has been working as a R&D Manager at Fractus S.A. in Barcelona, Spain. His main research interest is RF technology for wireless communications and biomedical applications. He was the recipient of the Best Student Paper Award presented at the 2003 Antenna Measurement Techniques Association (AMTA) Symposium. He was the student paper finalist for IEEE AP-S International Symposium and USNC/URSI in 2004.

Implanted Antennas forWireless Communications.- Computational Methods.- Antennas Inside a Biological Tissue.- Antennas Inside a Human Head.- Antennas Inside a Human Body.- Planar Antennas for Active Implantable Medical Devices.- Conclusion.