Intra-examiner and inter-examiner reproducibility of paraspinal thermography

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  McCoy, Matthew ^a   Campbell, Ismay ^b   Stone, Pamela ^b   Fedorchuk, Curtis ^b   Wijayawardana, Sameera ^c   Easley, Kirk ^c  

^a Life University   (United States)

^b Emory University ^*

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PARASPINAL THERMOGRAPHY; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; IN VITRO STUDY; INFRARED RADIATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SPINE;

ADULT; HUMANS; INFRARED RAYS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; SPINE; THERMOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951846056     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016535     Document Type: Article

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