Fast acquisition of heart rate in noncontact vital sign radar measurement using time-window-variation technique

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 112-122

  Tu, Jianxuan ^a   Lin, Jenshan ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctangent demodulation; Complex signal demodulation (CSD); Frequency spectrum resolution; Heart rate (HR); Noncontact continuous wave (CW) Doppler radar vital sign detection; Short period time window; Time window variation

Indexed keywords

DEMODULATION; DOPPLER RADAR; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HEART; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; ONLINE SEARCHING; RADAR; RADAR SYSTEMS; SPECTROSCOPY; TRACKING RADAR; VEHICLE ROUTING;

CONTINUOUS WAVE DOPPLER RADARS; CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; FAST ACQUISITION; FREQUENCY SPECTRA; HARMONIC INTERFERENCE; SEARCHING METHODS; SLIDING TIME WINDOWS; SPECTRUM RESOLUTION;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84959555042     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2015.2479103     Document Type: Article

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