Respiratory monitoring and clutter rejection using a CW doppler radar with passive RF tags

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 558-565

  Singh, Aditya ^a   Lubecke, Victor M ^a  

^a University of Hawaii at Manoa   (United States)

Author keywords

Doppler radar; radio frequency identification; remote monitoring; wearable sensors

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER DATA; CLOSE PROXIMITY; CLUTTER REJECTION; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; HARMONIC RADAR; HOMODYNE RECEIVER; HUMAN SUBJECTS; MOVING OBJECTS; PASSIVE TAGS; PERIODIC MOTION; REMOTE MONITORING; RESPIRATORY MONITORING; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; SCATTERING OBJECTS; SECOND HARMONIC SIGNALS; WEARABLE SENSORS;

BACKSCATTERING; DOPPLER EFFECT; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; RADAR SYSTEMS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SIGNAL ANALYSIS;

DOPPLER RADAR;

EID: 84863420687     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2011.2134083     Document Type: Article

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