Antenna evaluation of a non-contact vital signs sensor for continuous heart and respiration rate monitoring

RWW 2012 - Proceedings: 2012 IEEE Topical Conference on Biomedical Wireless Technologies, Networks, and Sensing Systems, BioWireleSS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 13-16

  Das, Vighneshrudra ^a   Boothby, Alex ^a   Hwang, Royce ^b   Nguyen, Tam ^a   Lopez, Jerry ^a   Lie, Donald Y C ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

arctangent demodulation; Doppler radar; helical antenna; log periodic antenna; noncontact vital signs monitoring; patch antenna; quadrature receiver; wireless continuous monitoring; Yagi antenna

Indexed keywords

ANALOG ELECTRONICS; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; CONTINUOUS WAVE DOPPLER RADARS; HEARTBEAT SIGNALS; NON-CONTACT; QUADRATURE RECEIVERS; RESPIRATION RATE; RF RECEIVERS; SENSOR SYSTEMS; VITAL SIGN; YAGI ANTENNAS;

DOPPLER RADAR; HELICAL ANTENNAS; LOG PERIODIC ANTENNAS; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; PATIENT MONITORING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

SENSORS;

EID: 84860563542     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BioWireless.2012.6172730     Document Type: Conference Paper

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