Analysis of an indoor biomedical radar-based system for health monitoring

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2061-2068

  Mercuri, Marco ^a   Soh, Ping Jack ^a,b   Pandey, Gokarna ^a   Karsmakers, Peter ^a,c   Vandenbosch, Guy A E ^a   Leroux, Paul ^a,c   Schreurs, Dominique ^a  

^a Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PERLIS   (Malaysia)

^c Thomas More University College   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fall detection; health monitoring; radar remote sensing; tagless localization; Zigbee communication

Indexed keywords

FALL DETECTION; HEALTH MONITORING; RADAR REMOTE SENSING; TAGLESS LOCALIZATION; ZIGBEE COMMUNICATIONS;

DATA PROCESSING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

RADAR;

EID: 84877749853     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2013.2247619     Document Type: Article

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