Range correlation and I/Q performance benefits in single-chip silicon Doppler radars for noncontact cardiopulmonary monitoring

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 838-848

  Droitcour, Amy D ^a   Boric Lubecke, Olga ^b,c   Lubecke, Victor M ^b,c   Lin, Jenshan ^d   Kovacs, Gregory T A ^a,e  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c University of Hawaii at Manoa   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

BiCMOS analog integrated circuits; Biomedical monitoring; CMOS analog integrated circuits; Continuous wave (CW) radar; Doppler radar; Homodyne detection; Microwave integrated circuits; Phase noise; Radar clutter; Range correlation; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DEMODULATION; DOPPLER RADAR; MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RADAR CLUTTER; REMOTE SENSING; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TRANSCEIVERS;

ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; NONCONTACT CARDIOPULMONARY MONITORING; PHASE NOISE; RANGE CORRELATION;

LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 1842527440     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2004.823552     Document Type: Article

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