Antennas for Medical Applications

Rapid advances in technology have been accompanied by an increasing application of technology to health care. More and more interaction of scientists and engineers with medical people has resulted in significant developments in improved health care using highly sophisticated equipment. Correspondingly, the use of antennas of one kind or another in the practice of medicine has increased. Most of the medical applications of antennas involve coupling electromagnetic energy into the human body or into other biological systems, such as animals used in experimental measurements.

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  1. University of Utah, USA C. H. Durney
  2. University of Utah, USA M. F. Iskander
  1. C. H. Durney