Application of thermography for the assessment of allergen-induced skin reactions

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 765-772

  Rokita, Eugeniusz ^a,b   Rok, Tomasz ^b   Tatoń, Grzegorz ^b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

Author keywords

allergy; mathematical model; skin prick test; thermography

Indexed keywords

ALLERGENS; ALLERGIES; DERMATOLOGY; HEAT GENERATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REACTION KINETICS; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT);

ALLERGIC REACTIONS; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE; SENSITIVE INDICATOR; SKIN PRICK TEST; SPATIOTEMPORAL DISTRIBUTIONS; THERMOGRAPHIC MEASUREMENT;

SURFACE REACTIONS;

EID: 79551660159     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3533940     Document Type: Article

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