OBJECTIVE Our aims were to: establish the clinical significance of ultrasound, thermography, photography and subepidermal moisture (SEM) measurement; determine the accuracy of ultrasound, thermography, photography and SEM measurement in detecting skin/tissue damage; determine the relative accuracy of one of these assessment methods over another; make recommendations for practice pertaining to a...

prior to phlebography. Results in disagreement were reviewed retrospectively. Ascending phlebography was performed using a modified method and diagnostic criteria described by Rabinov and Paulin (7). We obtained 211 phlebograms in 200 patients. USINGTHERMOGRAPHY to diagnose deep venous thrombosis was suggested in 1972 by Soulen et al. (1). They confirmed that thermography was helpful in recogni...

The study validated the application of infrared thermography in a serotonin-induced itch model in rats since the only available method in animal models of itch is the count of scratching bouts. Twenty four adult Sprague-Dawley male rats were used in 3 experiments: 1) local vasomotor response induced by intradermal serotonin (10 l) was evaluated against isotonic saline and Methysergide (10 l); 2...

In this paper, an overview of the recent applications of pulsed infrared thermography is presented. Pulsed infrared thermography, which provides stratigraphic information by analyzing the heat diffusion process within the sample after a thermal perturbation, is applied to the investigation of different kinds of cultural heritage artefacts. In particular, it is used to analyze repairs, decorativ...

Active thermography is a relatively new NDE technique, in which either a pulse or sinusoidal thermal stimulus forms the basis for conventional Pulsed (PT) and Pulsed Phase (PPT), and Lock-in (LT) Thermography respectively. Recently a new approach to active thermography was proposed in which the thermal stimulus is frequency modulated. In Frequency Modulated Thermal Wave Imaging (FMTWI), a speci...

BACKGROUND Double-blinded challenges are widely used for diagnosing food allergy but are time-consuming and cause severe reactions. Outcome relies on subjective interpretation of symptoms, which leads to variations in outcome between observers. Facial thermography combined with nasal peanut challenge was evaluated as a novel objective indicator of clinical allergy. METHODS Sixteen children wi...

Thermography has found a broad range of applications in veterinary medicine and racing performance. The usefulness of thermography in veterinary medicine has been proved in detecting pathological conditions associated with inflammatory, vascular or neurological pathological disorders. The main advantage of thermography is the detection of subclinical signs of inflammation before the onset of cl...

There are many difficulties associated with the assessment of disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis. Infrared thermography has been used to quantify joint inflammation. The heat distribution index (HDI) is reproducible, sensitive, quantifiable, and not subject to circadian variation or interobserver error. In this study the HDIs for both elbows, wrists, knees, and ankles were summated and co...