Title : 
Biological information detection using ultra wideband signals
         
        
            Author : 
Suzuki, Aya ; Ikegami, Tetsushi
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Grad. Sch. of Sci. & Technol., Meiji Univ., Kawasaki, Japan
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
In this paper, detection of high-precision respiration rate and heart rate, by using low-band ultra wideband (UWB) signal is studied. In order to detect the high-precision biological information, two methods are proposed to reduce the background noise, using pre-measured ambient response without the human body, and evaluated with experiments.
         
        
            Keywords : 
biomedical measurement; cardiology; medical signal detection; medical signal processing; pneumodynamics; signal denoising; signal reconstruction; ultra wideband technology; background noise reduction; high-precision biological information detection; high-precision heart rate detection; high-precision respiration rate detection; low-band UWB signal; premeasured ambient response; ultrawideband signal; Antenna measurements; Frequency measurement; Heart rate; Noise measurement; Reflection; Time measurement; UWB; biological information detection; noise reduction;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT), 2015 9th International Symposium on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Kamakura
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ISMICT.2015.7107501