Ultra wideband radar for water detection in the human body

German Microwave Conference Digest of Papers, GeMIC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 150-153

  Li, Xuyang ^a   Pancera, Elena ^a   Zwirello, Lukasz ^a   Wu, Huaming ^a   Zwick, Thomas ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Impulse Radio (IR); Ultra Wideband (UWB); UWB radar; Water detection

Indexed keywords

HUMAN BODIES; IMPULSE RADIO (IR); IMPULSE RADIO ULTRA-WIDEBAND; IMPULSE RADIOS; MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; ON-BODY; REFLECTION FROM THE BOUNDARY; SIMULATION AND MEASUREMENT; ULTRA WIDEBAND RADARS; UWB RADARS; VIVALDI ANTENNAS; WATER ACCUMULATION; WATER DETECTION;

ANTENNAS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; IMPULSE NOISE; MEASUREMENTS; RADAR; RADIO;

TRACKING RADAR;

EID: 77955112759     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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