Investigation of an ultra wideband noise sensor for health monitoring
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2020

Quick on-scene assessment and early intervention is the key to reduce the mortality of stroke and trauma patients, and it is highly desirable to develop ambulance-based diagnostic and monitoring devices in order to provide additional support to the medical personnel. We developed a compact and low cost ultra wideband noise sensor for medical diagnostics and vital sign monitoring in pre-hospital settings. In this work, we demonstrated the functionality of the sensor for respiration and heartbeat monitoring. In the test, metronome was used to manipulate the breathing pattern and the heartbeat rate reference was obtained with a commercial electrocardiogram (ECG) device. With seventeen tests performed for respiration rate detection, sixteen of them were successfully detected. The results also show that it is possible to detect the heartbeat rate accurately with the developed sensor.

Vital sign

Time domain

Biomedical applications

Microwave

Ultra wideband

Författare

Xuezhi Zeng

Chalmers, Elektroteknik, Signalbehandling och medicinsk teknik

Joakim Robakowski

Student vid Chalmers

Mikael Persson

Chalmers, Elektroteknik, Signalbehandling och medicinsk teknik

Albert Monteith

Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Mikrovågs- och optisk fjärranalys

Andreas Fhager

Chalmers, Elektroteknik, Signalbehandling och medicinsk teknik

Sensors

1424-8220 (ISSN) 1424-3210 (eISSN)

Vol. 20 4 1034

Ämneskategorier

Medicinsk laboratorie- och mätteknik

Annan medicinteknik

Medicinsk apparatteknik

DOI

10.3390/s20041034

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