UWB radar based cardiac motion detection in medical diagnostic

Author

Kosch, O. ; Clemente, F. Scotto di ; Hein, M.A. ; Seifert, F.

Author_Institution

Phys.-Tech. Bundesanstalt (PTB), Berlin, Germany

fYear

2012

Firstpage

570

Lastpage

573

Abstract

A contact-less, interference-free approach for the detection of cardiac mechanics and respiration by means of multi-channel ultra-wideband (UWB) radar was developed [2], suitable to deliver trigger signals for cardiac MR imaging. Compared to previous systems we increased the number of antennas to four transmitters and eight receiver antennas. This allows measurements of up to 32 channels and makes UWB motion detection less sensitive to the particular positioning of the antennas relative to the heart.

Keywords

MIMO radar; biomedical MRI; biomedical equipment; cardiology; medical signal detection; medical signal processing; pneumodynamics; radar antennas; radar detection; radar receivers; radar signal processing; radar transmitters; receiving antennas; transmitting antennas; ultra wideband radar; UWB radar based cardiac motion detection; cardiac MR imaging; cardiac mechanics; contact-less interference-free approach; heart; medical diagnostics; multichannel ultrawideband radar; receiver antennas; respiration; transmitters; trigger signals; Decision support systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC), 2012 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on

Conference_Location

Cape Town

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0404-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APWC.2012.6324928

Filename

6324928