TY - CHAP AU - Mohamed Mahfouz AU - Michael Kuhn AU - Gary To ED - Boris Lembrikov Y1 - 2011-08-01 PY - 2011 T1 - The Future of Ultra Wideband Systems in Medicine: Orthopedic Surgical Navigation N2 - Ultra wideband (UWB) communication systems are characterized by high data rates, low cost, multipath immunity, and low power transmission. In 2002, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) legalized low power UWB emission between 3.1 GHz and 10.6 GHz for indoor communication devices stimulating rapid development of UWB technologies and applications. The proposed book Novel Applications of the UWB Technologies consists of 5 parts and 20 chapters concerning the general problems of UWB communication systems, and novel UWB applications in personal area networks (PANs), medicine, radars and localization systems. The book will be interesting for engineers and researchers occupied in the field of UWB technology. BT - Novel Applications of the UWB Technologies SP - Ch. 14 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/20501 DO - 10.5772/20501 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-20 ER -