Tomographic analysis is used to provide a correction to low-pressure stoichiometric premixed CH(4)/O(2) flame temperatures measured with tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy employing CO two-line thermometry. It is shown that flame temperatures measured with line-of-sight-based two-line thermometry are always too low and that the correction to the observed temperature is a nonlinear func...

OBJECTIVES Fever in young infants frequently triggers a laboratory evaluation because of the increased likelihood of serious bacterial infections. Reported fever by methods other than rectal thermometry is of concern. This study evaluates the validity of perceived, pacifier, and temporal artery (TA) temperatures. METHODS A convenience sample of 200 babies younger than 3 months of age presenti...

Imaging temperature fields at the nanoscale is a central challenge in various areas of science and technology. Nanoscopic hotspots, such as those observed in integrated circuits or plasmonic nanostructures, can be used to modify the local properties of matter, govern physical processes, activate chemical reactions and trigger biological mechanisms in living organisms. The development of high-re...

We have developed a THz near-field microscope with an ultrahighly sensitive detector, CSIP (charge-sensitive infrared phototransistor). In our microscope, scattered photons by a tungsten probe are collected by an objective of a confocal THz microscope and are finally detected by the CSIP. To suppress the far-field background, the probe vertically modulated and the signal is demodulated the sign...

We study the development potential of ultrasonic thermometry in a liquid fluctuating sodium environment similar to that present in a Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor, and thus investigate if and how ultrasonic thermometry could be used to monitor the sodium flow at the outlet of the reactor core. In particular we study if small temperature variations in the sodium flow of e.g. about 1% of the sodium ...

PURPOSE Acceleration of magnetic resonance (MR) thermometry is desirable for several applications of MR-guided focused ultrasound, such as those requiring greater volume coverage, higher spatial resolution, or higher frame rates. METHODS We propose and validate a constrained reconstruction method that estimates focal temperature changes directly from k-space without spatial or temporal regula...

Mild hyperthermia has been successfully employed to induce reversible physiological changes that can directly treat cancer and enhance local drug delivery. In this approach, temperature monitoring is essential to avoid undesirable biological effects that result from thermal damage. For thermal therapies, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has been employed to control real-time Focused Ultrasound ...

Non-invasive precise thermometers working at the nanoscale with high spatial resolution, where the conventional methods are ineffective, have emerged over the last couple of years as a very active field of research. This has been strongly stimulated by the numerous challenging requests arising from nanotechnology and biomedicine. This critical review offers a general overview of recent examples...

Thermally excited luminescence from rare-earth element doped SiO2 fibers were studied for the fiber-optic thermometer application in high temperature. Thermal radiation similar to the black body radiation was observed in visible light region from the SiO2 fibers doped with Y, La, Ce, Pr, Eu, Tb and Lu. Visible light radiation peaks due to f-f transitions of rare-earth ions were clearly observed...

A method is described for measuring absorbed electromagnetic energy radiated from cell phone antennae into ex vivo brain tissue. NMR images the 3D thermal dynamics inside ex vivo bovine brain tissue and equivalent gel under exposure to power and irradiation time-varying radio frequency (RF) fields. The absorbed RF energy in brain tissue converts into Joule heat and affects the nuclear magnetic ...