DocumentCode
2810573
Title
Contactless Heart Monitoring (CHM)
Author
Mohammad-Zadeh, Faranak ; Taghibakhsh, Farhad ; Kaminska, Bozena
Author_Institution
Simon Fraser Univ. Burnaby, Burnaby
fYear
2007
fDate
22-26 April 2007
Firstpage
583
Lastpage
585
Abstract
An apparatus for measuring mechanical heart movement, and heart rate monitoring without physically connecting electrodes or other sensors to the body was developed. Contactless heart monitoring (CHM) based on Doppler radar with frequency of 2.4 GHz at a distance of up to 30 cm is capable of detecting the mechanical vibrations of the heart, without any contact with the person´s body, and it can operate and record the heart rate through a mattress, wall or other barriers. In this paper we present the theory, and preliminary results of our basic CHM setup.
Keywords
Doppler radar; cardiology; microwave measurement; patient monitoring; contactless heart monitoring; frequency 2.4 GHz; heart rate monitoring; mechanical heart movement measurement; microwave Doppler radar; Doppler radar; Electrodes; Frequency; Heart rate; Heart rate measurement; Joining processes; Mechanical sensors; Mechanical variables measurement; Motion measurement; Radar detection;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2007. CCECE 2007. Canadian Conference on
Conference_Location
Vancouver, BC
ISSN
0840-7789
Print_ISBN
1-4244-1020-7
Electronic_ISBN
0840-7789
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CCECE.2007.150
Filename
4232809
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