Feasibility study and design of a wearable system-on-a-chip pulse radar for contactless cardiopulmonary monitoring

International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications

Volumn 2008, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Zito, Domenico ^a   Pepe, Domenico ^a   Neri, Bruno ^a   Zito, Fabio ^b   De Rossi, Danilo ^a   Lanatà, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MEASUREMENTS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; OPERATING PRINCIPLES; REMOTE DATA ACQUISITION; ULTRA WIDE-BAND ANTENNAS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND SIGNAL; WIRELESS DATA LINKS; WIRELESS INTERFACES;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DATA ACQUISITION; PLANNING; RADAR EQUIPMENT; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

RADAR;

EID: 70349705794     PISSN: 16876415     EISSN: 16876423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2008/328597     Document Type: Article

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