Magnetic Sensors and Actuators in Medicine: Materials, Devices, and Applications provides an overview of the various sensors and actuators, their characteristics, role in the development of medical applications, the medical problems they solve, and future directions. The book brings together recent advances in the physics, chemistry and engineering of magnetic materials related to sensors and actuators that improve their functions in medical applications. The book describes the main applications of magnetic sensors and actuators, starting from the common and emerging magnetic materials, their principles of operation, the medical problems that they are used to address, and the latest achievements in the field.

1. Introduction
2. Magnetic materials used in medical applications
3. Magnetic materials-based medical devices for diagnosis, surgery and therapy
4. Magnetic systems for control and manipulation of surgical instruments
5. Magnetic field sensors in medical diagnosis
6. Magnetically actuated systems for microfluidic applications
7. Magnetic microactuators for displacing biological materials in implantable catheters
8. Magnetic nanoparticles detection, manipulation and trapping; lab on chip devices
9. Magnetic point-of-care systems for medical diagnosis
10.Magnetic actuation of magnetic particles for medical therapies
11. Magnetic sensors for evaluation of magnetic characteristics of nanoparticles
12. Wireless power transfer technology for biomedical implants
13. Magnetic nanowires/nanorods/nanotubes for medical sensing applications
14. Magnetic microdevices for medical applications (micro-robots)