Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Current Methods of Physiological Monitoring -- 1.2 Need for Noncontact Physiological Monitoring -- 1.2.1 Patients with Compromised Skin -- 1.2.2 Sleep Monitoring -- 1.2.3 Elderly Monitoring -- 1.3 Doppler Radar Potential for Physiological Monitoring -- 1.3.1 Principle of Operation and Power Budget -- 1.3.2 History of Doppler Radar in Physiological Monitoring -- References -- Chapter 2 Radar Principles -- 2.1 Brief History of Radar -- 2.2 Radar Principle of Operation -- 2.2.1 Electromagnetic Wave Propagation and Reflection -- 2.2.2 Radar Cross Section -- 2.2.3 Radar Equation -- 2.3 Doppler Radar -- 2.3.1 Doppler Effect -- 2.3.2 Doppler Radar Waveforms: CW, FMCW, Pulsed -- 2.4 Monostatic and Bistatic Radar -- 2.5 Radar Applications -- References -- Chapter 3 Physiological Motion and Measurement -- 3.1 Respiratory System Motion -- 3.1.1 Introduction to the Respiratory System -- 3.1.2 Respiratory Motion -- 3.1.3 Chest Wall Motion Associated with Breathing -- 3.1.4 Breathing Patterns in Disease and Disorder -- 3.2 Heart System Motion -- 3.2.1 Location and Gross Anatomy of the Heart -- 3.2.2 Electrical and Mechanical Events of the Heart -- 3.2.3 Chest Surface Motion Due to Heart Function -- 3.2.4 Quantitative Measurement of Chest Wall Motion Due to Heartbeat -- 3.3 Circulatory System Motion -- 3.3.1 Location and Structure of the Major Arteries and Veins -- 3.3.2 Blood Flow Through Arteries and Veins -- 3.3.3 Surface Motion from Blood Flow -- 3.3.4 Circulatory System Motion: Variation with Age -- 3.4 Interaction of Respiratory, Heart, and Circulatory Motion at the Skin Surface -- 3.5 Measurement of Heart and Respiratory Surface Motion -- 3.5.1 Radar Measurement of Physiological Motion -- 3.5.2 Surface Motion Measurement of Respiration Rate.

3.5.3 Surface Motion Measurement of Heart/Pulse Rate -- References -- Chapter 4 Physiological Doppler Radar Overview -- 4.1 RF Front End -- 4.1.1 Quadrature Receiver -- 4.1.2 Phase Coherence and Range Correlation -- 4.1.3 Frequency Choice -- 4.1.4 Antenna Considerations -- 4.1.5 Power Budget -- 4.2 Baseband Module -- 4.2.1 Analog Signal Conditioning and Coupling Methods -- 4.2.2 Data Acquisition -- 4.3 Signal Processing -- 4.3.1 Phase Demodulation -- 4.3.2 Demodulated Phase Processing -- 4.4 Noise Sources -- 4.4.1 Electrical Noise -- 4.4.2 Mechanical Noise -- 4.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5 CW Homodyne Transceiver Challenges -- 5.1 RF Front End -- 5.1.1 Single-Channel Limitations -- 5.1.2 LO Leakage Cancellation -- 5.1.3 IQ Imbalance Assessment -- 5.2 Baseband Module -- 5.2.1 AC and DC Coupling -- 5.2.2 DC Canceller -- 5.3 Signal Demodulation -- 5.3.1 DC Offset and DC Information -- 5.3.2 Center Tracking -- 5.3.3 DC Cancellation Results -- References -- Chapter 6 Sources of Noise and Signal-to-Noise Ratio -- 6.1 Signal Power, Radar Equation, and Radar Cross Section -- 6.1.1 Radar Equation -- 6.1.2 Radar Cross Section -- 6.1.3 Reflection and Absorption -- 6.1.4 Phase-to-Amplitude Conversion -- 6.2 Oscillator Phase Noise, Range Correlation and Residual Phase Noise -- 6.2.1 Oscillator Phase Noise -- 6.2.2 Range Correlation and Residual Phase Noise -- 6.3 Contributions of Various Noise Sources -- 6.3.1 Phase Noise -- 6.3.2 Baseband 1/f Noise -- 6.3.3 RF Additive White Gaussian Noise -- 6.4 Signal-to-Noise Ratio -- 6.5 Validation of Range Correlation -- 6.6 Human Testing Validation -- References -- Chapter 7 Doppler Radar Physiological Assessments -- 7.1 Actigraphy -- 7.2 Respiratory Rate -- 7.3 Tidal Volume -- 7.4 Heart Rates -- 7.5 Heart Rate Variability -- 7.6 Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia -- 7.7 RCs and Subject Orientation -- References.

Chapter 8 Advanced Performance Architectures -- 8.1 DC Offset and Spectrum Folding -- 8.1.1 Single-Channel Homodyne System with Phase Tuning -- 8.1.2 Heterodyne System with Frequency Tuning -- 8.1.3 Low-IF Architecture -- 8.2 Motion Interference Suppression -- 8.2.1 Interference Cancellation -- 8.2.2 Bistatic Radar: Sensor Nodes -- 8.2.3 Passive RF Tags -- 8.3 Range Detection -- 8.3.1 Physiological Monitoring with FMCW Radar -- 8.3.2 Physiological Monitoring with UWB Radar -- References -- Chapter 9 Applications and Future Research -- 9.1 Commercial Development -- 9.1.1 Healthcare -- 9.1.2 Defense -- 9.2 Recent Research Areas -- 9.2.1 Sleep Study -- 9.2.2 Range -- 9.2.3 Multiple Subject Detection -- 9.2.4 Animal Monitoring -- 9.3 Conclusion -- References -- Index -- EULA.