NPL contributions to the standardisation and validation of contemporary medical thermometry methods
| Autor: | Graham Machin, A. Whittam, R Simpson, H. C. McEvoy |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Engineering
Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Tympanic Membrane Critical Care Physiology Thermometers 0206 medical engineering Biomedical Engineering Biophysics 02 engineering and technology Thermometry 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Imaging Three-Dimensional Physiology (medical) Physical laboratory Humans business.industry Reference Standards 020601 biomedical engineering Risk analysis (engineering) Calibration business Medical science Laboratories 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Physiological measurement. 40(5) |
| ISSN: | 1361-6579 |
| Popis: | Since the advent of reliable mercury-in-glass thermometers in the latter part of the 19th century the practice of clinical thermometry was thought to be a solved issue. However with advances in technology there has, in recent decades, been a proliferation of temperature measurement methods applied to medical science. Many of these have been introduced because of the clinical benefit they confer, nevertheless, in some cases the metrological foundation and infrastructure to ensure sound measurement was not in place. This paper will focus on the standardisation activity undertaken by the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) to support reliable temperature measurement, using a number of innovative methods, in a clinical setting. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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