Multitunable microwave system for touchless heartbeat detection and heart rate variability extraction

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 192-198

  Obeid, Dany ^a   Sadek, Sawsan ^a   Zaharia, Gheorghe ^b   El Zein, Ghaïs ^a  

^a IETR   (France)

^b LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Doppler radar; Heart rate variability; Heartbeat rate; Microwave systems; Noncontact detection

Indexed keywords

CONTACT LESS; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEARTBEAT SIGNALS; MICROWAVE SYSTEMS; NON-CONTACT DETECTION; OUTPUT POWER LEVELS; TWO PARAMETER;

DOPPLER EFFECT; DOPPLER RADAR; MICROWAVES; RADAR; TRACKING RADAR;

HEART;

EID: 73049087136     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mop.24877     Document Type: Article

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