Infrared thermography is used for measuring and analyzing physiological functions and pathology related to the body’s thermal homeostasis and temperature. This review provides an overview of the technological advantages of infrared imaging, with the focus on new advances in and opportunities for infrared imaging, as a reliable medical diagnostic tool. The review has four main parts. Firstly, a ...

BACKGROUND Infrared spectroscopy probes the chemical composition and molecular structure of complex systems such as tissue and cells. Infrared spectroscopic imaging combines this spectral information with lateral resolution near the single-cell level. We analyzed whether this method is competitive with classic immunohistochemical methods for immunologic tissue and cells. METHODS We recorded i...

Fourier transform infrared imaging instrumentation has come of age for the rapid acquisition of biosample IR images, and thus now allows developing analytical methods based upon the molecular information of samples contents. For the biomedicine field, Fourier transform infrared imaging should be able to play a role in the molecular characterization of cells and tissues where no other analytical...

Infrared Functional Imaging was applied to the study of Raynaud’s Phenomenon obtaing a simultaneous assessment of the thermal properties of all five fingers of both hands of a group of patients with respect of a control group. The method is based on the use of high-resolution telethermography imaging and allows identification of objective parameters from the re-warming curves of finger immediat...

We have constructed a near-infrared imaging camera which is attached to the prime focus of 105cm Schmidt telescope at Kiso Observatory. The camera is equipped with a 10401040 PtSi CSD array developed by Mitsubishi Electric Co. The combination of Kiso Schmidt and the array gives a wide eld of view of 18:4 0 18:4 0 with a reasonable spatial resolution of 1:06"=pixel. The system performances of th...

We present diffraction-limited infrared images of three binary stars reconstructed using speckle imaging techniques. Three methods of recovering the objects' Fourier amplitudes are compared, Fourier deconvolution, projection onto convex sets, and CLEAN. The objects' Fourier phases are retrieved via bispectral analysis. We find that the quality of the final reconstructed images is a function of ...

Thermal infrared imaging has been proposed, and is now used, as a tool for the non-contact and non-invasive computational assessment of human autonomic nervous activity and psychophysiological states. Thanks to a new generation of high sensitivity infrared thermal detectors and the development of computational models of the autonomic control of the facial cutaneous temperature, several autonomi...

Advancements in widefield infrared spectromicroscopy have recently been demonstrated following the commissioning of IRENI (InfraRed ENvironmental Imaging), a Fourier Transform infrared (FTIR) chemical imaging beamline at the Synchrotron Radiation Center. The present study demonstrates the effects of magnification, spatial oversampling, spectral pre-processing and deconvolution, focusing on the ...

We propose a multi-viewer tracking integral imaging system for viewing angle and viewing zone improvement. In the tracking integral imaging system, the pickup angles in each elemental lens in the lens array are decided by the positions of viewers, which means the elemental image can be made for each viewer to provide wider viewing angle and larger viewing zone. Our tracking integral imaging sys...