Special Issue on Medical Applications of Electromagnetic Techniques
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 . FOREWORD ........................................................ 787
        Kunio SAWAYA, Koichi ITO, Fujio AMEMIYA, Kazuhiro IINUMA,
        Takuro KISHIMOTO,Koichi SHIMIZU, Itsuo YAMAURA and Toshio
        WAKABAYASHI

PAPERS
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 . Recent Trends in Medical Microwave Radiometry ................... 789
        Shizuo MIZUSHINA, Hiroyuki OHBA, Katsumi ABE, Shinya MIZOSHIRI
        and Toshifumi SUGIURA

 . Recent Progress of Electromagnetic Techniques in Hyperthermia
   Treatment ....................................................... 799
        Makoto KIKUCHI

 . Recent Problems of Electromagnetic Technology in MRI ............ 809
        Issei MORI, Yoshinori HAMAMURA and Hiromi KAWAMOTO

 . Application of Biotelemetry Technique for Advanced Emergency Radio
   System .......................................................... 818
        Koichi SHIMIZU, Seiji MATSUDA, Isao SAITO, Katsuyuki YAMAMOTO
        and Takeshi HATSUDA

 . Dual Concentric Conductor Radiator for Microwave Hyperthermia with
   Improved Field Uniformity to Periphery of Aperture .............. 826
        Paul R. STAUFFER, Marco LEONCINI, Vinicio MANFRINI, Guido Biffi
        GENTILI,Chris J. DIEDERICH and David BOZZO

 . A Partially Ferrites Loaded Waveguide Applicator for Local Heating
   of Tissues ...................................................... 836
        Yoshio NIKAWA, Yasunori TOYOFUKU and Fumiaki OKADA

 . Effect of a Catheter on SAR Distribution Around Interstitial Antenna
   for Microwave Hyperthermia ...................................... 845
        Meng-Shien WU, Lira HAMADA, Koichi ITO and Haruo KASAI

 . Computation of the Field Distribution Generated by a Rectangular
   Aperture in a Four-Layered Lossy Dielectric Medium by Modal
   Analysis ........................................................ 851
        Shinya MIZOSHIRI, Katsumi ABE, Toshifumi SUGIURA and Shizuo
        MIZUSHINA

LETTERS
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 . Relationship between SAR of Eyeball and Position of Feeding Point of
   MRI Antenna ..................................................... 859
        Hisaaki OCHI, Etsuji YAMAMOTO and Kunio SAWAYA

 . Performance of Spread Spectrum Medical Telemetry System in a Sharing
   Frequency Band with Current Telemetry System .................... 862
        Masaki KYOSO, Toshiaki TAKANE and Akihiko UCHIYAMA

 . Electromagnetic Near Fields of Rectangular Waveguide Antennas in
   Contact with Biological Objects Obtained by the FD-TD Method .... 866
        Katsumi ABE, Shinya MIZOSHIRI, Toshifumi SUGIURA and Shizuo
        MIZUSHINA

 . A New Muscle-Equivalent Phantom for SAR Estimation .............. 871
        Katsumi FURUYA, Lira HAMADA, Koichi ITO and Haruo KASAI

 . Microwave CT Imaging for a Human Forearm at 3 GHz ............... 874
        Takayuki NAKAJIMA, Hiroshi SAWADA and Itsuo YAMAURA

Regular Section
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PAPERS
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[ Communication Networks and Services]

 . Analysis of a High-Speed Slotted Ring with Single Packet Buffers  877
        Woo Young JUNG and Chong Kwan UN

 . Routing Domain Definition for Multiclass-of-Service Networks .... 883
        Shigeo SHIODA

[ Switching and Communication Processing]

 . A Congestion Control Method for DQDB/B-ISDN Interconnection Gateway
            ........................................................ 896
        Jung-Shyr WU

[ Communication Systems and Transmission Equipment]

 . Analyses of Virtual Path Bandwidth Control Effects in ATM Networks
            ........................................................ 907
        Hisaya HADAMA, Ken-ichi SATO and Ikuo TOKIZAWA

[ Optical Communication]

 . Coding for Multi-Pulse PPM with Imperfect Slot Synchronization in
   Optical Direct-Detection Channels ............................... 916
        Kazumi SATO, Tomoaki OHTSUKI and Iwao SASASE

[ Antennas and Propagation]

 . Simulation Study on Ground-Based Direction Finding of VLF/ELF Radio
   Waves by Wave Distribution Functions: a Bayesian Approach ....... 923
        Mehrez HIRARI and Masashi HAYAKAWA

LETTERS
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[ Communication Networks and Services]

 . Transmission Line Analysis of Slot Coupled Patch Antennas of Reduced
   Size ............................................................ 932
        Mohamed HIMDI and Jean Pierre DANIEL

[ Communication Device and Circuit]

 . Performance Analysis of Non-coherent Delay-Locked Loop in Multiple
   Access Interference ............................................. 935
        Seung Eok HONG, Soon Young YOON, Hwang Soo LEE and Jaemin AHN

 . ABSTRACTS (IEICE Trans., Vol.J78-B-I, J78-B-II No.6 in Japanese)  942