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The proposed radar scheme is free from the synchronization constraint and exhibits low sensitivity to internal parasitic mutual coupling, thus significantly reducing its design complexity without worsening its performance in terms of accuracy and operating ranges. Alternatively to canonical FMCW radars, which exploit chirp signals with triangular or sawtooth-like frequency variation, a radar based on a sinusoidal frequency modulation, which does not require specific synchronization procedures to achieve accurate motion detection even at a short distance from the radar, was developed. Both numerical and experimental results, performed with a 24 GHz radar, have shown the suitability of the proposed modulation scheme for monitoring very small target movements, consistent with those typically exhibited by the human thorax during basic vital activities (heartbeat and respiration). 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