Medical Applications of IR Focal Plane Arrays

Autor: Nicholas A. Diakides
Rok vydání: 1998
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DOI: 10.21236/ada344309
Popis: The motivation for this effort was to transfer the highly developed advanced DOD infrared technology to the field of medicine, with a view to achieving a low cost, non-invasive, non-ionizing and effective imaging modality. As such, it could be used on its own or as an adjunct to other imaging methods presently available in order to enhance the overall performance. The major results of this work were the following: (1) established the status of medical IR imaging worldwide and highlighted results of this survey; (2) identified ten major areas of IR imaging uses in medicine through in-depth literature review, contacts, visits, and special workshops; (3) analyzed and defined performance requirements in terms of thermal sensitivity and spatial resolution for several critical medical applications; (4) specified systems requirements for medical IR cameras, both cooled and uncooled types; (5) facilitated the collaborative efforts of researchers by creating a forum for presentations, discussions and workshops on medical infrared imaging; (6) all the above spurred collaborative efforts, teaming arrangements, new initiatives in clinical research; (7) initiated efforts to start clinical research for the quantification of data for the purpose of establishing infrared imaging as an imaging modality in medicine.
Databáze: OpenAIRE