Full Description
Infra-red thermal imaging is a rapid and non-invasive procedure for mapping skin temperature distribution of the human body. The natural infra-red emission from the skin is captured by the imaging camera, and is displayed as a digital image. Advanced software and high resolution infra-red detectors has allowed for a renaissance in the use of infra-red thermal imaging or thermography in medical research and practice. Thermal imaging provides a two dimensional map of skin temperature, which can often indicate a localisation of hypo or hyperthermia and its major clinical value is in its high sensitivity to pathology in the vascular, muscular, neural and skeletal systems and as such can contribute to the pathogenesis and diagnosis. After a brief review of theory and technology of infra-red imaging the bulk of the book consists of a collection of clinical case studies demonstrating the wide variety of applications for thermography in modern medicine. The combined expertise from a number of centres is used to create a database of images that will be invaluable for practitioners in making diagnoses and measuring treatment efficacy.
Contents
Preface Part 1 Technical 1 The technique of infrared imaging in medicine 2 Reproducibility of standard positions used for image capturing within the standard protocol for thermal imaging 3 Reliability of temperature readings from selected standard views for thermal imaging 4 Influence of colour sale on accurate infrared thermal images Part 2 Head and Neck 5 New standards for fever screening with thermal imaging systems 6 Infantile hemangiomas - IR thermography in assessment 7 Exploratory thermal and laser speckle contrast imaging measurements of eye inflammation in a case of thyroid eye disease 8 Thermographic examination of a boy with an abscess near to the maxillary sinus 9 Malignant melanoma characterization with thermal and visual imaging 10 Thermographic monitoring of ophthalmic surgery - extraction of cataract 11 Application of thermal imaging in the diagnosis of inflammatory changes of nasal sinusitis 12 Thermal evaluation of temperature distribution in the oral cavity during dental operations Part 3 Trunk 13 Thermographic assessment of the presence of fatty tumours in myoclonic epilepsy with ragged red fibres (MERRF) 14 Tietze's syndrome and the role of infrared imaging in the differentia diagnosis of acute chest pain in adolescents 15 Thoracic vertebral block. TPVB - the technique of injecting local anasthetic Part 4 Upper Extremity 16 The sensitivity of infrared imaging for diagnosing Raynaud's phenomenon is dependent on the method of temperature extraction from thermal images 17 Nerve entrapment and skin temperature of the human hand 18 Imaging assessments of patients with suspected systemic sclerosis and associated inflammatory lung disease 19 Use of infrared thermography to differentiate "cold intolerance" from "true Raynaud's phenomenon" in the context of fibromyalgia 20 Hand arm vibration syndrome documented by thermal imaging - a case report 21 Thermal imaging and its potential for arterio-venous fistula function assessment 22 Thermographic monitoring of blood flow in arteriovenous fistulae Part 5 Lower Extremity 23 A case study in the diagnosis of a grade III ankle sprain using a combination of medical images 24 Thermal imaging in monitoring of grade III ankle sprain rehabilitation - a case study 25 Application of thermal imaging in the diagnosis and treatment monitoring of the Complex Regional Pain Syndrome type I 26 Thermal imaging potential for assessing diabetic Charcot foot syndrome 27 Thermal imaging of the foot in different forms of diabetic disease 28 Thermal imaging in screening diagnosis of crural varices in adolescents 29 Thermographic investigation in diagnosisof femoral vein thrombosis 30 Infrared thermal imaging of critical leg ischaemia 31 Infrared imaging of angiomatosis syndrome (Klippel - Trenaunay syndrome) 32 Thermal imaging, a monitoring tool for treatment of erythromelalgia
