Electromagnetic Technologies for Medical Diagnostics: Fundamental Issues, Clinical Applications and Perspectives
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Imaging and Theranostics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2018) | Viewed by 89866
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microwave imaging; noninvasive electromagnetic diagnostics; therapeutic applications of EM fields; forward and inverse electromagnetic scattering
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Interests: computational electrodynamics (FDTD); antennas and microwave engineering; physics-based signal processing; medical imaging
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Electromagnetic (EM) technologies for medical imaging represent an emerging alternative diagnostic modality, which is attracting the attention of many researchers worldwide, thanks to unique features such as the non-ionizing nature and the intrinsic low cost of equipment. At the European level, this research area has gained significant momentum through two COST Actions (MiMed—TD1301; EMF-MED BM1309), which have brought together the efforts of a number of scholars and practitioners in the push towards translating this emerging technology into clinics.
This Special Issue aims at providing a comprehensive picture on this lively research area by gathering contributions covering all aspects related to this research, starting from fundamental questions (e.g., dielectric property measurements of tissue, development of imaging methodologies, modelling of EM scattering), to experimental validation in laboratory and in vivo, down to clinical trials and applications (e.g., breast cancer imaging, neuroimaging, biomedical sensing and monitoring of vital parameters). Contributions may be, therefore, related, but not limited, to microwave imaging, microwave radiometry, combined modalities, electrical property tomography, and low frequency imaging methods, such as electric impedance tomography, contrast enhanced imaging, and bioradar.
Dr. Lorenzo Crocco
Dr. Panos Kosmas
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Microwave imaging
- Inverse scattering
- Cancer
- Electromagnetics
- Biomedical radar
- Biomedical sensing
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