DocumentCode :
3118734
Title :
Robust Overnight Monitoring of Human Vital Signs by a Non-contact Respiration and Heartbeat Detector
Author :
Li, Changzhi ; Lin, Jenshan ; Xiao, Yanming
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Florida Univ., Gainesville, FL
fYear :
2006
fDate :
Aug. 30 2006-Sept. 3 2006
Firstpage :
2235
Lastpage :
2238
Abstract :
A positive answer is given to the question intrigued by our previous work reported in EMBC 2005: whether it is possible for a non-contact physiological movement detector to detect vital signs from four sides of a human body. In addition to the proof from measured data, theoretical analysis confirms the surprising advantage of detection from the back of the body. Based on this observation, a non-contact system was set up to perform overnight monitoring of vital signs using low power radio waves. Measurement data is presented and analyzed. The challenges and key technologies that improved the performance of our system for overnight monitoring are discussed
Keywords :
biomedical equipment; biomedical measurement; cardiology; pneumodynamics; radiowaves; EMBC 2005; heartbeat detector; human vital signs; low power radio waves; noncontact physiological movement detector; noncontact respiration detector; overnight monitoring; Heart beat; Humans; Robustness; Doppler radar; Ka-band; Overnight monitoring; heartbeat; low-power; non-contact; respiration; vital sign;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS '06. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
New York, NY
ISSN :
1557-170X
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0032-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260148
Filename :
4462235
Link To Document :
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