Ultra wideband (UWB) techniques have attracted much research interest in a variety of medical applications. UWB microwave hyperthermia can be utilized to heat tissues using electromagnetic fields as part of cancer treatment. Many emerging imaging techniques have also relied on UWB radar concepts to improve the sensitivity and specificity of cancer detection. Tissue-implanted UWB devices communicate biomedical signals from the interior to the exterior of the human body and vice versa. UWB systems may also be deployed for non-contact, non-invasive vital-sign monitoring. Developing and optimizing these technologies involves a crystal understanding of the interactions between UWB electromagnetic fields and tissue. Moreover, UWB technology can be applied in body-centric wireless communications, which refer to human-self and human-to-human networking with the use of wearable and implantable wireless sensors. It encompasses wireless body area network, wireless sensor network, and wireless personal area network. Body-centric wireless communications find rich applications in personal health monitoring to achieve distributed diagnosis and home healthcare. The objective of this Special Issue is to highlight current and emerging research in applications of UWB systems in biomedicine, which will bring together the latest work in this growing interdisciplinary field.

Subject Coverage
The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
o UWB microwave imaging for disease assessment, e.g., breast cancer, stroke, cardiovascular diseases
o UWB microwave hyperthermia for cancer treatment
o Tissue-implanted UWB medical devices
o UWB radars for remote vital-sign monitoring
o UWB-based body-centric wireless communications for tele-healthcare
o Effects of human exposure to electromagnetic fields transmitted by UWB biomedical devices
o Security and privacy issues of UWB-based body-centric networking for personal healthcare services
o Coexistence of UWB biomedical devices with other wireless communication systems

Notes for Prospective Authors
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the IJUWBCS web page (http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijuwbcs). You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail to the following:

Dr. Yifan Chen
School of Engineering
University of Greenwich
Chatham Maritime
Kent, ME4 4TB, UK
E-mail: Y.Chen@gre.ac.uk

with a copy to:

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Please include in your submission the title of the Special Issue, the title of the Journal and the name of the Guest Editor.

Important Dates:
Submission deadline: 1 August 2009
Author Notification: 1 December 2009
Final Manuscript: 1 February 2010

Guest Editors
Dr. Yifan Chen
School of Engineering
University of Greenwich
Chatham Maritime
Kent, ME4 4TB
UK
E-mail: Y.Chen@gre.ac.uk

Prof. Mohammad Ghavami
Division of Engineering
King’s College London
Strand
London, WC2R 2LS
UK
E-mail: mohammad.ghavami@kcl.ac.uk

Dr. Reza Dilmaghani
Division of Engineering
King’s College London
Strand
London, WC2R 2LS
UK
E-mail: reza.shams_dilmaghani@kcl.ac.uk

Dr. Ian James Craddock
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
University of Bristol
Woodland Road
Bristol, BS8 1UB
UK
E-mail: Ian.Craddock@bristol.ac.uk

Prof. Yang Hao
Department of Electronic Engineering
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road
London, E1 4NS
UK
E-mail: y.hao@elec.qmul.ac.uk

Dr. Yi Huang
Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics
University of Liverpool
Liverpool, L69 3BX
UK
E-mail: huangyi@liv.ac.uk

Prof. William Scanlon
The Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT)
Queen’s University Belfast
Belfast, BT3 9DT
UK
E-mail: w.scanlon@qub.ac.uk