Wireless IC Doppler radars for sensing of heart and respiration activity

Author

Boric-Lubecke, Olga ; Droitcour, A.D. ; Lubecke, Victor M. ; Lin, Jenshan ; Kovacs, Gregory T A

Author_Institution

Hawaii Univ., Honolulu, HI, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

1-3 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

337

Abstract

Remote monitoring of respiration and heart activity can be implemented using wireless communications technology and Doppler radar techniques. Such monitoring has been demonstrated by leveraging existing wireless technology. RFIC´s developed for wireless base stations have been reused to produce hybrid and fully integrated Doppler radars for vital signs sensing. Heart and respiration activity were observed using these radars at a distance of up to one meter. This technology can potentially enable low-cost, noninvasive long term monitoring of chronic and recovering patients.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; Doppler radar; biosensors; cardiology; lung; medical signal processing; patient monitoring; radar applications; radiofrequency integrated circuits; BICMOS; heart; patient monitoring; remote monitoring; respiration activity; silicon RFIC; vital signs sensing; wireless IC Doppler radars; wireless communications technology; Base stations; BiCMOS integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Doppler radar; Heart; Medical services; Patient monitoring; Remote monitoring; Silicon; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications in Modern Satellite, Cable and Broadcasting Service, 2003. TELSIKS 2003. 6th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7963-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TELSKS.2003.1246240

Filename

1246240