Standard procedures for infrared imaging in medicine

Medical Devices and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 36-1-36-14

  Ammer, Kurt ^a,b   Ring, E Francis ^b  

^a Institute for Medical Physics   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

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