Micromachined hot-wire thermal conductivity probe for biomedical applications

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6440, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Yi, Ming ^a   Panchawagh, Hrishikesh V ^a   Podhajsky, Ronald J ^b   Mahajan, Roop L ^a,c  

^a University of Colorado   (United States)

^b Tyco Healthcare   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hot wire method; Micro sensor; Thermal conductivity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; SENSORS; SUBSTRATES;

HOT-WIRE METHOD; MICRO SENSOR;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 34548204292     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.700814     Document Type: Conference Paper

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