The experimental results of tissue thickness estimation with UWB signals for the purpose of detecting water accumulations in the human body

Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology is a very promising opportunity for the realization of a mobile and continuous on-body system for the detection and quantification of water accumulations in the human body. Such a system could drastically reduce costs in different areas of urology and cardiology extending the field of self care systems. It allows estimation of water amounts in human organs (e.g. the bladder or the lung) by processing reflected UWB signals. This paper presents and discusses initial experimental results concerning the estimation of the thickness of tissue layers in the urinary bladder cross-section model. The configuration of UWB radar hardware and antenna placements as well as analysis the comparison of the results achieved with different signal processing methods can be found here.