Comparison of pulsed photothermal radiometry, optical coherence tomography and ultrasound for melanoma thickness measurement in PDMS tissue phantoms

T Wang, S Mallidi, J Qiu, LL Ma… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Melanoma accounts for 75% of all skin cancer deaths. Pulsed photothermal radiometry
(PPTR), optical coherence tomography (OCT) and ultrasound (US) are non‐invasive …

Functional infrared imaging for skin-cancer screening

TM Buzug, S Schumann, L Pfaffmann… - … Conference of the …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Annually 133.000 people world-wide get sick on malign melanoma, tendency increasing.
The purpose of this study is the early diagnosis of malignant skin cancer. At the moment the …

Human radiation thermometry and screening for elevated body temperature in humans

GR Peacock - Thermosense XXVI, 2004 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Infrared radiation thermometry has in the past decade seen remarkable success in
measuring human body temperature, as evidenced by the many variations on the Infrared …

[PDF][PDF] Human Body Temperature Measurement—Class Program

E Dziuban - Joint IMEKO TC-1 & XXXIV MKM Conference, 2002 - imeko.org
Author established the program of class with the aim of familiarising students with IR
radiation thermometers (pyrometers): their basic principles (infrared theory), construction …

Effusivity depth profiling from pulsed radiometry data: comparison of different reconstruction algorithms

JC KRAPEZ, R LI VOTI - Analytical Sciences/Supplements, 2002 - jlc.jst.go.jp
The objective of photothermal depth profiling is to characterise the depth-profile of thermal
conductivity () zk, diffusivity()()()() zCz zk za ρ=, or eventually effusivity ()()()()[] 21 zCz zk zb …

Analysis of transient thermal images to distinguish melanoma from dysplastic nevi

MP Çetingül, HE Çetingül… - Medical Imaging 2011 …, 2011 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We have recently developed a dynamic infrared (IR) imaging system that provides accurate
measurements of transient thermal response of the skin surface for characterizing lesions …

Application of infrared thermography in computer aided diagnosis

O Faust, UR Acharya, EYK Ng, TJ Hong… - Infrared Physics & …, 2014 - Elsevier
The invention of thermography, in the 1950s, posed a formidable problem to the research
community: What is the relationship between disease and heat radiation captured with …

Non-invasive tissue temperature measurements based on quantitative diffuse optical spectroscopy (DOS) of water

SH Chung, AE Cerussi, SI Merritt, J Ruth… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe the development of a non-invasive method for quantitative tissue temperature
measurements using Broadband diffuse optical spectroscopy (DOS). Our approach is based …

Noninvasive fluence rate mapping in living tissues using magnetic resonance thermometry

TJL Schreurs, R Gorkum, XU Zhang… - … of biomedical optics, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
A noninvasive method is introduced for quantification and visualization of fluence rate in
light-irradiated biological tissues. The method is based on magnetic resonance thermometry …

Analysis of layered scattering materials by pulsed photothermal radiometry: application to photon propagation in tissue

IA Vitkin, BC Wilson, RR Anderson - Applied optics, 1995 - opg.optica.org
A model of pulsed photothermal radiometry (PPTR) based on optical diffusion theory is
presented for a turbid, two-layer, semi-infinite medium containing a surface layer whose …