Title :
Further discussion for the temperature recovery rate method in infrared thermography diagnosis
Author :
Xu, Genlin ; Shang, Zhigang ; Jiang, Guotai
Author_Institution :
Shanghai Med. Instrum. Coll., China
Abstract :
Summary form only given. This paper deduces the characteristic equation of the body surface temperature change according to the classic bio-heat transfer equation, and attains the theoretic equation for calculating temperature recovery rate. By comparing the temperature recovery rate method generally used in infrared thermography diagnosis with this method, we analyses the shortage of the former in actual diagnosis, and propose a new concept of temperature recovery trend coefficient. At the last of this paper, the analyses result for some diabetes cases with temperature recovery rate method and temperature recovery trend coefficient is given.
Keywords :
biomedical optical imaging; biothermics; diseases; infrared imaging; characteristic equation deduction; classic bioheat transfer equation; diabetes cases; infrared thermography diagnosis; medical diagnostic imaging; temperature recovery rate method; temperature recovery trend coefficient; theoretic equation; Abstracts; Biomedical engineering; Diabetes; Educational institutions; Equations; Instruments; Medical diagnostic imaging; Temperature;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2001. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7211-5
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1017383
