Numerical and experimental analysis of UWB pulse propagation into human tissues

Author

Pittella, Erika ; Pisa, Stefano ; Cavagnaro, Marta

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Electron. & Telecommun., Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Rome, Italy

fYear

2014

fDate

6-9 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

61

Lastpage

64

Abstract

In this paper an experimental validation of the results obtained studying the reflection of a UWB pulse by a multilayer human body model is performed. The simulated received signal presents a first reflection due to the air-skin interface and a second small reflection due to the interface between the posterior lung wall and the bone. Measurements with commercial impulse radar have been conducted to assess the simulation results, confirming that the second refection is well distanced in time from the first one and that it can be used to detect lung and heart movements associated with the cardio-respiratory activity.

Keywords

biomedical measurement; bone; cardiology; lung; numerical analysis; pneumodynamics; skin; ultra wideband radar; UWB pulse propagation; UWB pulse reflection; air-skin interface; bone; cardiorespiratory activity; commercial impulse radar; heart movement detection; human tissues; lung movement detection; multilayer human body model; numerical analysis; posterior lung wall; received signal behavior; Dielectrics; Lungs; Radar; Radar antennas; Reflection; Solid modeling; Thorax; UWB radar; pulse propagation; remote sensing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference (EuMC), 2014 44th European

Conference_Location

Rome

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuMC.2014.6986369

Filename

6986369