Thermographic patterns of the upper and lower limbs: Baseline data

International Journal of Vascular Medicine

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Gatt, Alfred ^a,b   Formosa, Cynthia ^a,b   Cassar, Kevin ^a   Camilleri, Kenneth P ^a   De Raffaele, Clifford ^a   Mizzi, Anabelle ^a   Azzopardi, Carl ^a   Mizzi, Stephen ^a   Falzon, Owen ^a   Cristina, Stefania ^a   Chockalingam, Nachiappan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

^b STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; CAMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY; THUMB; TOE;

EID: 84947648666     PISSN: 20902824     EISSN: 20902832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2015/831369     Document Type: Article

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