Wireless sensing of human respiratory parameters by low-power ultrawideband impulse radio radar

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 928-938

  Lai, Joshua Chong Yue ^a   Xu, Ying ^b   Gunawan, Erry ^a   Chua, Eric Chern Pin ^c   Maskooki, Arash ^a   Guan, Yong Liang ^a   Low, Kay Soon ^a   Soh, Cheong Boon ^a   Poh, Chueh Loo ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b EPCOS AG   (Germany)

^c DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Impulse radio radar; respiratory parameters; sleep apnea; ultrawideband (UWB); wireless sensor

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; BACK-SCATTERED; BREATHING RATE; DIFFERENT SIZES; EXISTING METHOD; HUMAN BEING; HUMAN SUBJECTS; IMPULSE RADIO; IMPULSE RADIO RADAR; LOW POWER; MEASURED RESULTS; PEAK DETECTION; RESPIRATORY PARAMETERS; RESPIRATORY RATE; SINGLE PULSE; SLEEP APNEA; TIDAL VOLUME; TIME DOMAIN; ULTRA WIDEBAND IMPULSE RADIO; UWB IMPULSE RADIO; WIRELESS SENSING; WIRELESS SENSOR;

IMPULSE NOISE; RADAR; RESPIRATORS; SENSORS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SLEEP RESEARCH; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

RADIO;

EID: 79951675903     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2010.2064370     Document Type: Article

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