Wireless Medical Implants
Special Session Call for papers
Wireless medical implants represent an exciting research area worldwide. Miniaturized devices, working either as sensors or stimulators, are implanted within the human body for medical diagnosis and treatment. Wireless communication links between the implant (patient) and exterior equipment (caregivers) are promising fast and reliable data interchange while eliminating patient discomfort. Personalized/adaptive designs of both the implant and the wireless link may be performed and optimized to suit specific individual needs. The need to achieve optimum balance among low power consumption of the implant, high quality bidirectional data transmission and patient safety reveals the research challenges of wireless implants.
Chairs
Konstantina S. Nikita
Professor - Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Short Bio
She received the Diploma in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. She then received the M.D. degree from the Medical School, University of Athens, Greece. Since 1990, she has been working as a Researcher at the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, NTUA. In 1996, she joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, as an Assistant Professor, and since 2005 she serves as a Professor, at the same department. Her current research interests include biological effects and medical applications of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields, medical imaging, biomedical signal and image processing and analysis, biomedical informatics, simulation of physiological systems. Dr. Nikita has authored or co-authored 130 papers in refereed international journals and chapters in books, and more than 250 papers in international conference proceedings. She is author or co-author of two books (Simulation of Physiological Systems, Medical Imaging Systems) in Greek and co-editor of one book (Computational Electromagnetics: State of the Art and Future Trends) in English published by Springer. She holds two patents. She has been the technical manager of several European and National Research and Development projects in the field of biomedical engineering. She has been chair/member of the program/organizing committee of more than 50 international conferences on the same fields. She is member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering and guest editor of several international journal issues on biomedical engineering subjects. Dr. Nikita was the Recipient of the 2003 Bodossakis Foundation Academic Prize for exceptional achievements in 'Theory and Applications of Information Technology in Medicine'. Dr. Nikita is a Senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece and a member of the Athens Medical Association. She is also the founding chair and ambassador of the IEEE-Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Greece chapter.
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