Chest-worn Transmitarray Lens for Monitoring Heart Rate Variability with a Remote Self-Injection-Locked Doppler Radar

This paper presents a transmitarray lens that can be worn on the chest to focus the radar beam towards a specific area of the heart for monitoring heart rate variability (HRV). The used Doppler radar is based on self-injection-locking (SIL) technology and was placed remotely from the monitored subje...

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Published inIEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium digest pp. 1188 - 1191
Main Authors El Arif, Rezki, Su, Wei-Chih, Horng, Tzyy-Sheng, Wu, Chung-Tse Michael
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 11.06.2023
Subjects
Doppler radar
Heart rate variability
Microwave devices
Microwave theory and techniques
Radar detection
Radar measurements
self-injection-locking
Three-dimensional printing
transmitarray lens
wearable device
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ISSN2576-7216
DOI10.1109/IMS37964.2023.10188195

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Summary:This paper presents a transmitarray lens that can be worn on the chest to focus the radar beam towards a specific area of the heart for monitoring heart rate variability (HRV). The used Doppler radar is based on self-injection-locking (SIL) technology and was placed remotely from the monitored subject. In the experiment, the transmitarray lens was set up to concentrate the incident wave penetrating into the chest on the heart's tricuspid valve; thus, the accuracy of monitoring HRV can be greatly improved. The comparison of the interbeat interval (IBI) data between the proposed radar measurement and the conventional electrocardiogram (ECG) shows excellent agreement.
ISSN:2576-7216
DOI:10.1109/IMS37964.2023.10188195