Medical applications of infrared thermography: A review

By B. B. Lahiri, S. Bagavathiappan, T. Jayakumar, J. Philip. Infrared physics & technology, 2012

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Abnormal body temperature is a natural indicator of illness. Infrared thermography (IRT) is a fast, passive, non-contact and non-invasive alternative to conventional clinical thermometers for monitoring body temperature. Besides, IRT can also map body surface temperature remotely. Last five decades witnessed a steady increase in the utility of thermal imaging cameras to obtain correlations between the thermal physiology and skin temperature. IRT has been successfully used in diagnosis of breast cancer, diabetes neuropathy and peripheral vascular disorders. It has also been used to detect problems associated with gynecology, kidney transplantation, dermatology, heart, neonatal physiology, fever screening and brain imaging. With the advent of modern infrared cameras, data acquisition and processing techniques, it is now possible to have real time high resolution thermographic images, which is likely to surge further research in this field. The present efforts are focused on automatic analysis of temperature distribution of regions of interest and their statistical analysis for detection of abnormalities. This critical review focuses on advances in the area of medical IRT. The basics of IRT, essential theoretical background, the procedures adopted for various measurements and applications of IRT in various medical fields are discussed in this review. Besides background information is provided for beginners for better understanding of the subject.

Subfields: Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Physiology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

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• Infrared Thermography for Temperature Measurement and Non-Destructive Testing (2014, background): “Some of the main fields where infrared thermography is used include medicine [12], veterinary medicine [13], maintenance and process monitoring [14], building inspection [15] and non-destructive testing [16].”
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• Classification of factors influencing the use of infrared thermography in humans: A review (2015, background): “A large number of studies suggest performing the infrared evaluation in a standardised and air-conditioned room without radiation sources, such as direct sunlight [2,45,58,88,139,162,259,271].”
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