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Active Dynamic Thermography in Medical Diagnostics

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This is an overview of active thermal imaging methods in medical diagnostics using external thermal stimulation. In this chapter, several clinical cases diagnosed using the active dynamic thermography method, ADT, are presented. Features of this technology are discussed and main advantages underlined. Applications in skin burn diagnostics and quantitative evaluation leading to modern classification of burned patients for further treatment are shown. Also the use of thermal imaging in cardiosurgery is discussed. A method of quantitative evaluation of the healing progress of post-cardiosurgery wounds is presented. The ADT method gives quantitative description of thermal structural data, supplementing well-established static thermal imaging that carry functional physiological information. Combination of both modalities supports the idea of modern multimodality approach in medical diagnostics.

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  • Thermal imaging
  • Thermal stimulation
  • Signal processing
  • Thermography

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Participation of coworkers from the Department of Biomedical Engineering Gdansk University of Technology, the Department of Plastic Surgery and the Department of Cardiac Surgery Gdansk University of Medicine is acknowledged; the research was financed by several research grants, recently NCN UMO-2011/03/B/ST7/03423 and partly from the statute funds of the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics GUT.

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Kaczmarek, M., Nowakowski, A. (2017). Active Dynamic Thermography in Medical Diagnostics. In: Ng, E., Etehadtavakol, M. (eds) Application of Infrared to Biomedical Sciences. Series in BioEngineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3147-2_17

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