DC coupled Doppler radar physiological monitor
| Autor: | Chenyan Song, Victor Lubecke, Xi Zhao, Olga Boric-Lubecke |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Capacitive coupling
Engineering Radar business.industry Doppler radar Electrical engineering Monitoring Ambulatory Reproducibility of Results Equipment Design Sensitivity and Specificity law.invention Equipment Failure Analysis Respiratory Rate law Distortion Electronic engineering Baseband Humans Direct coupling Radio frequency business DC bias |
| Zdroj: | EMBC |
| ISSN: | 2694-0604 |
| Popis: | One of the challenges in Doppler radar systems for physiological monitoring is a large DC offset in baseband outputs. Typically, AC coupling is used to eliminate this DC offset. Since the physiological signals of interest include frequency content near DC, it is not desirable to simply use AC coupling on the radar outputs. While AC coupling effectively removes DC offset, it also introduces a large time delay and distortion. This paper presents the first DC coupled IQ demodulator printed circuit board (PCB) design and measurements. The DC coupling is achieved by using a mixer with high LO to RF port isolation, resulting in a very low radar DC offset on the order of mV. The DC coupled signals from the PCB radar system were successfully detected with significant LNA gain without saturation. Compared to the AC coupled results, the DC coupled results show great advantages of less signal distortion and more accurate rate estimation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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