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    • Cardiovascular Physiology
    • Signal Processing

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    • Contact-based monitoring limits current vital sign assessment.
    • Radar sensing offers contactless measurement of cardiac activity.
    • Limited understanding of heart sound propagation to peripheral body regions.

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    • To investigate the feasibility of radar-based heart sound detection and propagation measurement across the whole body.
    • To analyze how heart sounds propagate and their temporal characteristics at various body locations.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilized a custom continuous-wave radar system and phonocardiogram (gold standard) to record heart sounds in 22 participants at 11 locations.
    • Acquired electrocardiogram (ECG) for overall heart activity reference.
    • Synchronized, preprocessed, manually segmented, and extracted temporal characteristics from ensemble-averaged radar and phonocardiogram signals.

    Main Results:

    • Heart sounds were successfully detected across the entire body using both radar and phonocardiogram systems.
    • Temporal characteristics of heart sounds varied significantly with measurement location.
    • Increased propagation time intervals were observed with increasing distance from the heart, showing strong agreement for the first heart sound (S1) and moderate agreement for the second heart sound (S2) between systems.

    Conclusions:

    • Radar-based systems are feasible for contactless evaluation of heart sound propagation.
    • This technology offers novel possibilities for cardiovascular research and remote health monitoring.
    • Findings demonstrate the potential for whole-body, non-invasive assessment of cardiac mechanical signal propagation.