Quantifying the relevance and stage of disease with the tau image technique

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 86-91

  Merla, Arcangelo ^a,b   Di Donato, Luigi ^a   Di Luzio, Silvano ^a,b   Romani, Gian Luca ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b INFM   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; INFRARED RADIATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; REVIEW; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMOREGULATION; THERMOSTABILITY;

COLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULAR DISEASES; RAYNAUD DISEASE; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; THERMOGRAPHY; THROMBOPHLEBITIS;

EID: 0036879776     PISSN: 07395175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MEMB.2002.1175143     Document Type: Review

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