Microwave life-detection systems for searching human subjects under earthquake rubble or behind barrier

By Kun-Mu Chen, Yong Huang, Jianping Zhang, A. Norman. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2000

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A Review on Recent Progress of Portable Short-Range Noncontact Microwave Radar Systems (2017, background): “While the noncontact vital signs detection concept was proposed by pioneers in this field in the twentieth century [1], [2], [64]–[66], research efforts in recent years have”
A Review on Recent Advances in Doppler Radar Sensors for Noncontact Healthcare Monitoring (2013, background): “As discussed in Section II, a CW radar typically transmits a single-tone signal and the received signal can be approximated by (1).”
Range correlation and I/Q performance benefits in single-chip silicon Doppler radars for noncontact cardiopulmonary monitoring (2004, background): “Starting in the early 1980s, similar systems were proposed to search for victims trapped in earthquake rubble or an avalanche [8] and to sense human presence behind a wall or other barrier [9].”
Cutting the last wires for mobile communications by microwave power transfer (2014, methodology): “For example, guard zones can be created around not only the PBs but also the mobiles using technologies such as microwave life detection [12].”