Neonatal infrared thermography imaging: Analysis of heat flux during different clinical scenarios

Infrared Physics and Technology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 538-548

  Abbas, Abbas K ^a   Heimann, Konrad ^b   Blazek, Vladimir ^a   Orlikowsky, Thorsten ^b   Leonhardt, Steffen ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clinical care; Compartmental heat flux; Model based correction; Neonatal thermography; Temperature drift

Indexed keywords

AIR VELOCITIES; APPLICATION SPECIFIC; CALIBRATION PROCESS; CLINICAL CARE; COMPENSATION METHOD; COMPENSATION TECHNIQUES; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; IMAGING PROCESS; INFRA-RED CAMERAS; MEASUREMENT OF TEMPERATURE; PHYSICAL INTERACTIONS; PRETERM INFANTS; REGION OF INTEREST; SKIN TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE DRIFTS; TEMPERATURE RECORDING; TEMPERATURE SIGNAL;

AIR; ERRORS; HEAT FLUX; MODELS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

EID: 84867334551     PISSN: 13504495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infrared.2012.07.001     Document Type: Article

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