Compact millimeter-wave sensor for remote monitoring of vital signs

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 830-841

  Bakhtiari, Sasan ^a   Elmer, Thomas W ^a   Cox, Nicholas M ^a   Gopalsami, Nachappa ^a   Raptis, Appostolos C ^a   Liao, Shaolin ^a   Mikhelson, Ilya ^b   Sahakian, Alan V ^b  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical monitoring; Millimeter wave (MMW) sensor; Remote sensing; Signal processing; Vital signs

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL MONITORING; DATA ANALYSIS ALGORITHMS; DETECTION RANGE; DIRECTIVITY; FRONT END; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; HOMODYNES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOW POWER; MECHANICAL DISPLACEMENTS; MILLIMETER-WAVE SENSORS; PATIENT HEALTH CARE; PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS; REMOTE MONITORING; RESPIRATION RATE; STANDOFF DISTANCE; STANDOFF SENSING; TEST CASE; UPPER LIMITS; VIBROMETRY; VITAL SIGN;

BIOMETRICS; DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT; HEALTH CARE; MILLIMETER WAVES; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; REMOTE CONTROL; REMOTE SENSING;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84857061421     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2011.2171589     Document Type: Article

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