Wireless Medical Systems and Algorithms ─ Design and Applications

The new trend in medicine is to minimize the hospitalization of patients while providing them with quality care and timely treatments. A possible solution to reduce the healthcare costs while keeping constant the level of medical services and patient care is the use of implantable devices for wirelessly monitoring physiological parameters in real time. This book describes new technologies for the continuous monitoring of patient health conditions by implantable wireless devices and topics such as biocompatibility concerns and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS).

Pietro Salvo received the M.Sc degree in electronics engineering and the Ph.D degree in automation, robotics, and bioengineering from University of Pisa, Italy, in 2004 and 2009, respectively. In 2004, he was a graduate student at the Electronics Research Laboratory, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He was a research associate at the Institute for the Conservation and Promotion of Cultural Heritage, National Council of Research, Florence, Italy, from 2008 until 2009, where he was involved in the development of photogrammetry devices for monitoring monumental surfaces. In 2009-2013, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Microsystems Technology (CMST), Ghent University, Belgium, where he was responsible for the development of sensors and electronic and microfluidic systems for bioengineering applications. Presently, he is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Pisa, Italy. His current research activity aims at the development of wireless and non-invasive tools for diagnostics and monitoring in healthcare applications.