A feasibility study on aortic pressure estimation using UWB radar

Author

Solberg, Lars Erik ; Balasingham, Ilangko ; Hamran, Svein-Erik ; Fosse, Erik

Author_Institution

Intervensjonssenteret, Oslo universitetssykehus HF, Oslo, Norway

fYear

2009

fDate

9-11 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

464

Lastpage

468

Abstract

Microwave radar based techniques have been proposed for medical applications such as heart beat and respiration monitoring, and for breast cancer detection. This paper investigates the feasibility of using microwave radar techniques to estimate aorta diameter variations. A survey of relevant medical literature shows that the aorta diameter variations can be used to estimate aortic compliance, pulse pressure and mean pressure.

Keywords

biological effects of microwaves; biomedical measurement; pressure measurement; ultra wideband radar; UWB radar; aorta diameter variations; aortic compliance; aortic pressure estimation; breast cancer detection; heart beat monitoring; mean pressure; medical applications; microwave radar; pulse pressure; relevant medical literature; respiration monitoring; Biomedical equipment; Biomedical monitoring; Breast cancer; Cancer detection; Heart beat; Medical services; Microwave theory and techniques; Radar applications; Radar detection; Ultra wideband radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultra-Wideband, 2009. ICUWB 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2930-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2931-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUWB.2009.5288761

Filename

5288761