Single-antenna doppler radars using self and mutual injection locking for vital sign detection with random body movement cancellation

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 59, Issue 12 PART 2, 2011, Pages 3577-3587

  Wang, Fu Kang ^a   Horng, Tzyy Sheng ^a   Peng, Kang Chun ^b   Jau, Je Kuan ^c   Li, Jian Yu ^c   Chen, Cheng Chung ^c  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Clutter effects; continuous wave (CW) radar; Doppler radar; injection locking; random body movement cancellation; vital sign detection

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER EFFECTS; CONTINUOUS WAVES; INJECTION LOCKING; RANDOM BODY MOVEMENT CANCELLATION; VITAL SIGN DETECTION;

ANTENNAS; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); DOPPLER RADAR; PATIENT MONITORING; SPECTRAL DENSITY;

CONTINUOUS WAVE RADAR;

EID: 83655184660     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2011.2171712     Document Type: Conference Paper

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