A reappraisal of the use of infrared thermal image analysis in medicine

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1019-1027

  Jones, Bryan F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Infrared cameras; Infrared imaging; Thermal imaging; Thermography

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; REFERENCE VALUE; REVIEW; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SKIN TEMPERATURE; STATISTICS; THERMOGRAPHY; THERMOREGULATION;

BIOPHYSICS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; HUMANS; REFERENCE VALUES; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TERMINOLOGY; THERMOGRAPHY;

CAMERAS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFRARED DEVICES; PHYSIOLOGY; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

DIGITAL INFRARED CAMERAS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0032216616     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.746635     Document Type: Article

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