Title :
Contactless Heart Monitoring (CHM)
Author :
Mohammad-Zadeh, Faranak ; Taghibakhsh, Farhad ; Kaminska, Bozena
Author_Institution :
Simon Fraser Univ. Burnaby, Burnaby
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;
Conference_Titel :
Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2007. CCECE 2007. Canadian Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-1020-7
Electronic_ISBN :
0840-7789
DOI :
10.1109/CCECE.2007.150
