Thermography study of skin response due to whole-body cryotherapy

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 180-187

  Cholewka, Armand ^a   Stanek, Agata ^b   Sieroń, Aleksander ^b   Drzazga, Zofia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Skin; Temperature; Thermography; Whole body cryotherapy

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS INDEX; BODY PARTS; CRYOGENIC CHAMBER; LOW TEMPERATURES; LOWER EXTREMITY; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; REGIONS OF INTEREST; SKIN SURFACES; SKIN TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE DECREASE; THERMAL RESPONSE; THERMOVISION CAMERA; WHOLE-BODY;

CRYOTHERAPY; SKIN; TEMPERATURE; THERMOCOUPLES; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); THERMOMETERS;

HEALTH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CRYOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG; LOW TEMPERATURE; MALE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY; THERMOMETRY;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CRYOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OBESITY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84859446218     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: 16000846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0846.2011.00550.x     Document Type: Article

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