Electromagnetic Imaging for a Novel Generation of Medical Devices: Fundamental Issues, Methodological Challenges and Practical Implementation

Francesca Vipiana is a Full Professor of Electromagnetic Fields at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of the Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy. Member of the advisory board of the Politecnico di Torino's PhD School, she has been teaching there the course "Advanced Computational EM for antenna analysis". She has also been an instructor at the post-graduate School "European School of Antennas and Propagation" (ESoA). Her main research activities concern the modeling, design, realization and testing of microwave imaging systems for medical and industrial applications. She has been coordinating the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action, Innovative Training Network "EMERALD - ElectroMagnetic imaging for a novel genERation of medicAL Devices", funded by the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program of the European Union. Professor Vipiana received the Lot Shafai Mid-Career Distinguished Award from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society in 2017, the First Prize inthe Poster Competition at the IEEE Women in Electromagnetics Workshop in 2009, and the Young Scientist Award at the URSI General Assembly in 2005. Furthermore, she is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation and of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine. She also served as a Guest Editor for the Special Issue "Electromagnetic Imaging and Sensing for Food Quality and Safety Assessment" (IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, vol. 62, no. 5, Oct. 2020).

Lorenzo Crocco is a Research Director within the Institute for the Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment, at the National Research Council of Italy (IREA-CNR). Since 1996, he has been doing research on electromagnetic (EM) scattering, with a focus on diagnostic and therapeutic applications of EM fields, through-the-wall radar, and GPR. With more than 100 papers published on these topics, he also gave keynote lectures at related conferences, and was involvedin many national and international research projects. An associate editor of the IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology (IEEE J-ERM), he also co-edited a book on Electromagnetic Technologies for Brain Diseases Diagnostics, Monitoring and Therapy (Crocco et al, 2018, Springer). Lorenzo Crocco received the full professor habilitation in electromagnetic fields in 2018. He is a fellow of the Electromagnetic Academy (TEA) and a URSI Senior Member. Since 2013, he has been a member of the management committees of the European COST actions devoted to medical applications of EM fields, such as MiMed and MyWAVE. He is a Member of the Board of Directors of the "European School of Antennas and Propagation" (ESoA) and of the Italian Electromagnetic Society (SIEm). He was the recipient of the SIEm "Barzilai" Award for Young Scientists (2004), and the URSI General Assembly URSI Young Scientist Award (2005).

Francesca Vipiana 是意大利都靈理工大學電子與電信系的電磁場全職教授。她是都靈理工大學博士學校的顧問委員會成員，並在該校教授「先進計算電磁學於天線分析」的課程。她也曾擔任「歐洲天線與傳播研究所」（ESoA）的研究生學校講師。她的主要研究活動涉及微波成像系統的建模、設計、實現和測試，應用於醫療和工業領域。她負責協調「EMERALD - 電磁成像用於新一代醫療設備」的瑪麗·斯克沃多夫斯卡-居里行動創新培訓網絡，該計畫由歐盟的地平線2020研究與創新計畫資助。Vipiana 教授於2017年獲得IEEE天線與傳播學會的Lot Shafai中期職業傑出獎，2009年在IEEE女性電磁學研討會的海報競賽中獲得第一名，並於2005年在URSI大會上獲得青年科學家獎。此外，她是《IEEE天線與傳播期刊》和《IEEE天線與傳播雜誌》的副編輯。她還擔任過特刊「食品質量與安全評估的電磁成像與感測」的客座編輯（《IEEE天線與傳播雜誌》，第62卷，第5期，2020年10月）。

Lorenzo Crocco 是意大利國家研究委員會（IREA-CNR）環境電磁感測研究所的研究主任。自1996年以來，他一直從事電磁（EM）散射的研究，專注於EM場的診斷和治療應用、穿牆雷達和地面穿透雷達（GPR）。他在這些主題上發表了超過100篇論文，並在相關會議上發表了主題演講，參與了許多國內和國際研究項目。作為《IEEE電磁學、射頻與醫學生物學期刊》（IEEE J-ERM）的副編輯，他還共同編輯了一本名為《電磁技術於腦部疾病診斷、監測與治療》的書籍（Crocco等，2018，Springer）。Lorenzo Crocco於2018年獲得電磁場的全職教授資格。他是電磁學院（TEA）的院士及URSI高級會員。自2013年以來，他一直是專注於EM場醫療應用的歐洲COST行動的管理委員會成員，如MiMed和MyWAVE。他是「歐洲天線與傳播學校」（ESoA）和意大利電磁學會（SIEm）董事會成員。他曾獲得SIEm青年科學家「Barzilai」獎（2004年）和URSI大會青年科學家獎（2005年）。