A review on recent advances in doppler radar sensors for noncontact healthcare monitoring

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2046-2060

  Li, Changzhi ^a   Lubecke, Victor M ^b   Boric Lubecke, Olga ^b   Lin, Jenshan ^c  

^a Texas Tech University   (United States)

^b University of Hawaii at Manoa   (United States)

^c J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary; Doppler radar; healthcare; heartbeat; noncontact measurement; respiration; sensor; vital sign

Indexed keywords

CARDIOPULMONARY; HEARTBEAT; NONCONTACT MEASUREMENTS; RESPIRATION; VITAL SIGN;

AUTOMATION; HEALTH CARE; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DOPPLER RADAR;

EID: 84877747964     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2013.2256924     Document Type: Review

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