Thermography is being increasingly appreciated as a further modality contributing to the early detection of incipient tissue damage predisposing to diabetic foot ulceration in selected high-risk patients. Among currently available modalities, liquid crystal thermography and infrared thermography have been most widely used. The former is effective, but its main limitation is low sensitivity. The...

Early breast cancer diagnosis is a challenging task for the radiologists without which the cancer death rate can be increased among women globally.Digitital mammography is the powerful technique which helps diagnosing breast cancers in premature stages preventing unnecessary biopsies and radiation treatments by proper screening and abnormality detection. The malignancy can be found in patients ...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Modern medicine actually offers a person an alternative to maintain health through a preventive regular examination, or in case of a disease consult a doctor and then, on his recommendation, conduct adequate treatment. However, if this disease turns out to be cancerous, the situation can be quite threatening for the patient, since the manifestation ...

This paper presents a method for detecting defects in reinforced concrete structures by using the method of active infrared (IR) thermography. Non-destructive testing using infrared (IR) thermography consists of thermal stimulation of the object of interest and monitoring of the surface temperature variation during the transient cooling or heating process. The paper includes short descriptions ...

BACKGROUND Infrared thermography is a painless, noninvasive, nonionizing diagnostic imaging exam used in human medicine as an auxiliary tool for breast cancer diagnosis in women. HYPOTHESIS/OBJECTIVES Define thermographic mean temperatures of healthy mammary glands and compare these temperatures with those of mammary glands with tumors in dogs. ANIMALS Fifty client-owned female dogs were ev...

Fusion of NDT techniques has proven to increase the capability and reliability of defect detection thus improve inspection results. It can also provide solution for the limitations posed by a single NDT technique in acquiring the intended information and so achieving the required inspection efficiency. Eddy current thermography is an emerging technology in advanced NDT, which provides and alter...

OBJECTIVE Safety and feasibility evaluation of intracoronary temperature measurements in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) using a catheter based thermography system. METHODS AND RESULTS Thermography was performed in 40 patients with ACS. A 3.5-F thermography catheter containing 5 thermocouples measuring vessel wall temperature, and 1 thermocouple measuring blood temperature (accur...

INTRODUCTION Methods allowing one to locate the position of a cutaneous perforator do not allow one to determine the boundaries of the vascularized skin. In clinical practice this causes complications in the form of marginal necrosis of the flap. AIM To examine the usefulness of thermography to assess the extent of vascularization of the skin and subcutaneous tissue by a single perforator. ...

Infrared (IR) thermography has evolved in recent years from being an emerging nondestructive testing (NDT) technique to a viable approach for both aerospace manufacturing and in-service inspections. One of the drawbacks of thermography techniques is that no standard signal processing has been universally adopted and that different algorithms yield different sizing results. Additionally, the dat...

An experimental methodology based on thermography techniques has been developed and implemented with the aim of finding emissivity values of forest fuel flames. In this paper, previous works by different authors are discussed and theoretical fundamentals of heat transfer by radiation and of infrared thermography on which experimental method relies are briefly described. Then, designed methodolo...