Radar cross section measurements of the human body for UWB radar applications

2012 IEEE I2MTC - International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1290-1293

  Piuzzi, E ^a   Pisa, S ^a   D'Atanasio, P ^b   Zambotti, A ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ENEA C R CASACCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

anechoic chambers; biomedical monitoring; radar cross section; ultra wideband radar

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY MONITORING; BIOMEDICAL MONITORING; CROSS-SECTION MEASUREMENT; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; FLAT PANEL; HUMAN BODIES; HUMAN SUBJECTS; LOSSY DIELECTRICS; SCATTERING DATA; SPECTRAL SIGNATURE; TEST RANGE; ULTRA WIDEBAND RADARS; UWB RADARS;

ANECHOIC CHAMBERS; FREQUENCY BANDS; MEASUREMENTS; RADAR CROSS SECTION; RADAR SYSTEMS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 84864229984     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/I2MTC.2012.6229134     Document Type: Conference Paper

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