Development of a non-contact screening system for rapid medical inspection at a quarantine depot using a laser Doppler blood-flow meter, microwave radar and infrared thermography

Journal of Medical Engineering and Technology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 403-409

  Matsui, T ^a   Suzuki, S ^a   Ujikawa, K ^a   Usui, T ^a   Gotoh, S ^a   Sugamata, M ^a   Badarch, Z ^a   Abe, S ^b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Metropolitan University Minami Osawa ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ERRORS; FAST SCREENING; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY; LASER DOPPLER; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT FUNCTIONS; MAHALANOBIS; MICROWAVE RADARS; NON-CONTACT; NON-CONTACT SCREENING SYSTEMS; NORMAL CONDITION; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; RESPIRATION RATE; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SYSTEM EVALUATION;

BLOOD; CLASSIFIERS; DOPPLER EFFECT; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOWMETERS; MICROWAVES; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT);

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREATHING RATE; ERGOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; INFRARED PHOTOGRAPHY; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NON CONTACT SCREENING SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PANDEMIC; SCREENING TEST; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FACE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFRARED RAYS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MASS SCREENING; MICROWAVES; RESPIRATION; THERMOGRAPHY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 67651155979     PISSN: 03091902     EISSN: 1464522X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03091900902821151     Document Type: Article

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