SE1: Healthy Radios: Radio & microwave devices for the health sciences

More than a century ago, Guglielmo Marconi made the first transatlantic radio transmission which forever changed the way people exchange information with one another. Scientist and engineers have spent the better part of the last century developing more efficient radio circuits, systems and software for wireless communication. Recently, the scientific community has begun exploring the use of radio-frequency circuits for bio-medical applications. These “Healthy Radios” can be categorized into two sub-topics. The first is the use of radios to communicate sensed information from the human body to the outside world. The second is the use of traditional radio circuits for medical analysis. The first two speakers in the “Healthy Radios” session will explore using radio circuits for biomedical sensing and diagnosis, such as early-cancer detection and Protein and DNA analysis. The next two speakers will describe current work on communication with radios links for body area networks (BAN) and implantable devices. This session will conclude with an overview on the state-of-the-art in CMOS medical imaging.