Advanced Implantable Antennas and Wireless Systems for Healthcare, Sensing, and Biomedical Applications: From Innovation to Clinical Translation

The rapid development of implantable and wearable medical technologies is transforming healthcare by enabling continuous physiological monitoring, targeted therapeutic interventions, remote patient management, and increasingly personalized models of care.Implantable antennas and their associated wireless systems constitute essential enabling components of these technologies, providing communication, sensing, localization, data transmission, and wireless power-transfer capabilities. A representative example is wireless cardiac pacemakers, where implantable antennas support telemetry and remote monitoring while operating under severe size, power, and biocompatibility constraints. Their design must reconcile stringent electromagnetic, mechanical, and biological constraints while ensuring robust and safe operation inside the human body.Despite substantial progress in antenna miniaturization, electromagnetic modelling, biocompatible materials, sensing technologies, and low-power wireless communication, the translation of many proposed systems from laboratory prototypes to validated healthcare applications remains limited.Implantable devices must operate reliably in heterogeneous and dynamic biological environments while satisfying demanding requirements concerning size, energy consumption, communication performance, electromagnetic exposure, patient safety, security, manufacturability, and long-term functionality. Addressing these requirements simultaneously, rather than in isolation, is critical to achieving clinically deployable systems.Existing research frequently addresses individual technical components in isolation: antenna geometry, propagation behavior, sensing mechanisms, communication protocols, wireless power transfer, packaging, safety, and clinical validation are often studied separately. However, clinically viable implantable systems require these dimensions to be considered as an integrated biomedical technology ecosystem, in which electromagnetic design, system engineering, and clinical needs are co-optimized from the outset.This Research Topic therefore seeks to connect fundamental electromagnetic innovation with device development, wireless system integration, experimental validation, and pathways toward clinical and real-world healthcare deployment. It welcomes contributions spanning theoretical modelling, prototype development, in vitro and in vivo validation, and clinical or translational case studies - such as implantable antennas for wireless cardiac pacemakers - and it will provide an interdisciplinary platform for researchers in antennas and propagation, biomedical engineering, microwave sensing, wireless communications, medical devices, healthcare technology, and translational engineering. Topic editors: Rashid Mirzavand, Yu Han, Sandra Costanzo Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/84179/advanced-implantable-antennas-and-wireless-systems-for-healthcare-sensing-and-biomedical-applications-from-innovation-to-clinical-translation