Because of the aging human population and increased numbers of surgical procedures
being performed, there is a growing number of biomedical devices being implanted each …

The intersection of biomedicine and radio frequency (RF) engineering has fundamentally
transformed self-health monitoring by leveraging soft and wearable electronic devices. This …

Background: Cranioplasty is critical to cerebral protection and restoring intracranial
physiology, yet this procedure is fraught with a high risk of complications. The field of …

Background Large skull reconstruction, with the use of customized cranial implants, restores
cerebral protection, physiologic homeostasis, and one's preoperative appearance. Cranial …

Cranioplasty is a common neurosurgical procedure; however, the optimal material choice
remains controversial. At the time of this writing, autologous bone, the preferred choice for …

Measuring quality of life (QOL) after cranioplasty is increasingly evident as a necessary
component of patient-centered care. For data to be useful in clinical decision-making and …

Technological advancements in electronics and micromachining now allow the
development of discrete wireless brain implantable micro-devices. Applications of such …

When Dr Paul Tessier introduced the new specialty of cranio-facial surgery, the world was a
different place. 1 Alloplastic cranial implants were the enemy for neurosurgical patients …

Wireless communication with Implantable Medical Devices (IMDs) based on
Radiofrequency Identification in the UHF band suffers from the constraints on the maximum …

Over the recent quarter-century, preoperative planning, prototyping, and treatment have
been revolutionized by the burgeoning fields of computer-assisted design and 3D printing …