Infrared thermography (IRT) has shown to be an important non-destructive method for the investigation of cultural heritage. More specifically, active IRT, monitoring the evolution of emitted infrared radiation at the surface of a sample with time, provides information on the structure of the artefact as well as on the thermal properties of the constituting material. The technique has been appli...

Medical infrared thermography (MIT) is used for analyzing physiological functions related to skin temperature. Technological advances have made MIT a reliable medical measurement tool. This paper provides an overview of MIT's technical requirements and usefulness in sports medicine, with a special focus on overuse and traumatic knee injuries. Case studies are used to illustrate the clinical app...

Dept.of Mechnical Design Eng., Chosun Univ., 375 Seosuk-dong, Dong-gu, Gwangju, Korea, [email protected] In this study, shearography and infrared thermography were used for measuring the wall thinning defects of the nuclear power plants pipes. It is very important to measure the wall thinning defects inside the pipes, because the wall thinning defects cause damage or destruction of the pipes. T...

In veterinary medicine, as in complimentary human medical disciplines, it is often difficult to make the proper diagnosis because of factors such as changing symptoms or the lack of diagnostically recognizable symptoms. The search for answers in such situations, coupled with the patient’s inability to communicate, is often frustrating to the veterinarian and costly to the client. The result is ...

Recurrent joint bleeds and silent bleeds are the most common clinical feature in patients with hemophilia. Every bleed causes an immediate inflammatory response and is the leading cause of chronic crippling arthropathy. With the help of infrared thermography we wanted to detect early differences between a group of clinical non-symptomatic children with hemophilia (CWH) with no history of clinic...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the intra-examiner and inter-examiner reproducibility of paraspinal thermography using an infrared scanner. MATERIALS AND METHODS The thermal functions of a commercially available infrared scanner (Insight Subluxation Station®) were evaluated for clinical reliability. Two practicing clinicians conducted the measures on 100 subjects. Intra ...

With increasing interest in the usage of wearable wireless communication technologies at 1.8 & 2.4GHz and 5 & 8.9GHz band of frequencies, investigations on the human body interaction with these devices are becoming important. This paper provides a microstrip-based multi-band monopole antenna for body Wearable Wireless Devices (WWD), covering licensed and license-free wireless technologies at UH...