Noncontact noninvasive monitoring of small laboratory animal's vital sign activities using a 60-GHz radar

Abstract

The use of radar technologies for biomedical research has potential benefits due to their effectiveness for noninvasively monitoring physiological responses and more humane treatments of living animals. It provides a useful tool for a more rapid, efficacious, and cost-effective extraction of animal's physiological data with great potential for clinical animal research, such as studying behavioral science (feeding rate or licking rate), monitoring the onset and progression of disease, and assessment of physiological responses to new treatments or drugs in a stress-free manner.