SoC CMOS UWB pulse radar sensor for contactless respiratory rate monitoring

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 503-510

  Zito, Domenico ^a   Pepe, Domenico ^a   Mincica, Martina ^a,b,c   Zito, Fabio ^d,e   Tognetti, Alessandro ^b   Lanatà, Antonio ^b   De Rossi, Danilo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c ANALOG DEVICES   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

^e ANSALDO ENERGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biomedical monitoring; CMOS technology; Contactless sensing; Sleep apnea; Ultra wideband radar

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; RADAR; RADAR EQUIPMENT; SYSTEM-ON-CHIP;

BIOMEDICAL MONITORING; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; CONTACT LESS; SLEEP APNEA; ULTRA WIDEBAND RADARS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 84855343372     PISSN: 19324545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2011.2176937     Document Type: Article

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