System and method for extracting physiological data using ultra-wideband radar and improved signal processing techniques

Abstract

Disclosed is a variant of ultra-wide band (UWB) radar known as micropower impulse radar (MIR) combined with advanced signal processing techniques to provide a new type of medical imaging technology including frequency spectrum analysis and modern statistical filtering techniques to search for, acquire, track, or interrogate physiological data. Range gate settings are controlled to depths of interest within a patient and those settings are dynamically adjusted to optimize the physiological signals desired.

1 . In a device employing ultra wideband radar return signals for extracting physiological data from one or more bodily organs or physiological processes of a patient, said device having an electronically controlled range gate, the process of extracting accurate physiological data including the steps of employing frequency spectrum analysis and statistical filtering techniques in extracting said data.