One of the main objectives of this lecture is to summarize the results of recent research activities of the authors on the subject of implanted antennas for medical wireless communication systems. It is anticipated that ever sophisticated medical devices will be implanted inside the human body for medical telemetry and telemedicine. To establish effective and efficient wireless links with these devices, it is pivotal to give special attention to the antenna designs that are required to be low profile, small, safe and cost effective. In this book, it is demonstrated how advanced electromagnetic numerical techniques can be utilized to design these antennas inside as realistic human body environment as possible. Also it is shown how simplified models can assist the initial designs of these antennas in an efficient manner.

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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 wasa 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.