Infrared thermal imaging in medicine
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...[102] and Ring and Ammer [153] reviewed the medical applications of infrared thermography, including breast cancer detection, diabetes neuropathy, fever screening, dental diagnosis, brain imaging, etc....
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...Importantly, the EAT has contributed studies by the group from the University of Glamorgan, which has worked to better understand the technical factors that affect IRT measurements and to create a strict protocol for reducing errors and increasing the accuracy and the precision of temperature measurements [3,18,165,416,420–424]....
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...drugs, using temperature alterations in the affected joints as an objective marker [165]....
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...Vasoactive and anti-inflammatory treatments are frequently noted to influence Tsk [23,88,165]....
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...Scars are a good example of a type of skin heterogeneity that can influence Tsk, however they are not commonly described in the literature [119,162–165]....
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...Use of thermal sensors in agriculture is somewhat limited despite its wide application in the areas of medicine (Ring and Ammer, 2012), intelligence/military (Hinz and Stilla, 2006), and food processing (Vadivambal and Jayas, 2011)....
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...Current technological advancements allowed measurement of emitted infrared heat by electronic thermal imaging (Ring, 2004; Ring & Ammer, 2012)....
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...Temperature distribution of the skin during and after physical exercise has been reported (Zontak et al 1998, Ferreira et al 2008, Merla et al 2010)....
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...Recent studies have also used thermography as an outcome measure in trials investigating low level laser treatment for myofascial pain (Hakgüder et al 2003) or knee osteoarthritis (Puzder et al 2010)....
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