Increasing Role of Power Electronics in Biomedical Applications [From the Editor]

Use of electricity in surgery goes back more than a century. Since then researchers and scientists have advanced the field to enable modern electrosurgery to pass alternating current with a fundamental frequency above 0.2 MHz but lower than 5 MHz through the human body to conduct clinical treatment, such as cutting, coagulation, and fulguration, and more. With advances in power electronics, dedicated electrosurgery generators have evolved considerably from their older versions in terms of size, weight, functionality, galvanic isolation, protection for safety, attachment detection, and in multitude of other aspects.