Switzerland, with its ETHZ and EPFL, universities, advanced technical colleges, the CSEM, the Empa and the Paul Scherrer Institute, possesses a complete chain of knowledge and interdisciplinary competence which ranks it among the worldwide leaders in medical technology. To ensure that a wider range of excellent research results are translated into marketable products and methods, the CTI Agency...

volume is related to the surface area of contact between electrode tip and endocardium and that voltage-directed CTI ablation is an effective technique. Limited power delivery from using temperature control mode in the mini-electrode arm likely resulted from the location of the tip temperature sensor in this catheter. This, we believe, played a significant role in the less favourable outcome no...

In thermal imaging, the invisible radiation pattern of an object is converted into a visible image. This two-dimensional temperature mapping technique has potential for characterizing products during several operations of agricultural and food industries. Thermal imaging has been successfully adopted for studying plant physiology, irrigation scheduling, and yield forecasting in agricultural fie...

With the explosion of e-commerce and advances in computer-telephony integration (CTI), the telephone has re-emerged as a potent third sales channel for large, multi-site retail businesses.

This review describes the features of modern infrared imaging technology and the standardization protocols for thermal imaging in medicine. The technique essentially uses naturally emitted infrared radiation from the skin surface. Recent studies have investigated the influence of equipment and the methods of image recording. The credibility and acceptance of thermal imaging in medicine is subje...

111 The 3D visualization activity is implemented in software using the Open Inventor environment with the Silicon Graphics hardware technology. Textures can be realized through the use of three-component texture maps that include rgb values to specify characteristics in the texture coordinate (s,t) plane. In summary, this paper addresses the use of thermal imaging for 3D object characterization...

Intravascular photoacoustics (IVPA)-a minimally invasive imaging technique with contrast related to optical absorption properties of tissue, can be used to visualize atherosclerotic plaques. However, the amplitude of photoacoustic signals is also related to a temperature dependent, tissue specific parameter-the Grüneisen parameter. Therefore, photoacoustic signals measured at different temperat...

in order to decrease water consumption in agricultural sector, deficit irrigation has been suggested. for preventing a heavy loss in crop yield, management of water stress is essential. common methods for measuring plant water stress such as stomatal conductance are time-consuming and require specialized labor and a large number of measurement. temperature of leaf or canopy surface can be an in...