Vital signs monitoring with a UWB radar based on a correlation receiver

EuCAP 2010 - The 4th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Leib, Mario ^a   Menzel, Wolfgang ^a   Schleicher, Bernd ^a   Schumacher, Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Impulse radio; Medical application; Radar; Ultra wideband (UWB); Vital signs monitoring

Indexed keywords

BASIC PRINCIPLES; CORRELATION RECEIVERS; HEART BEATS; HEART MUSCLES; HUMAN BEING; HUMAN BODIES; IMPULSE RADIO; MEASUREMENT PRINCIPLE; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; MULTITARGET; POST PROCESSING; RANGE GATING; SMALL AMPLITUDE; SMALL TARGETS; UWB RADARS; VITAL SIGN; VITAL SIGNS MONITORING; WIENER FILTERS;

ANTENNAS; CONTINUOUS WAVE RADAR; IMPULSE NOISE; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PATIENT MONITORING; RADAR; RADAR SYSTEMS; RADIO; TARGETS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

BROADBAND NETWORKS;

EID: 77955329635     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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