Overview

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.

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It is pleasing to see this long-awaited follow up to the original Casebook now available in print and as an e-book. This new book, richly illustrated throughout with colour thermograms, sets out to bring the reader up-to-date. The technical section is particulary strong, with Francis Ring and Kurt Ammer discussing therograhic protocols and image analysis standards authoritatively. The Casebook is nonetheless one of the most comprehensive collections of clinical thermography cases ever published in one text, and would be a valuable addition to any thermographer's bookshelf. Kevin Howell 2016 Thermology International, Austrian Society of Thermology -- Kevin Howell * Thermology international *

It is pleasing to see this long-awaited follow up to the original Casebook now available in print and as an e-book. This new book, richly illustrated throughout with colour thermograms, sets out to bring the reader up-to-date. The technical section is particulary strong, with Francis Ring and Kurt Ammer discussing therograhic protocols and image analysis standards authoritatively. The Casebook is nonetheless one of the most comprehensive collections of clinical thermography cases ever published in one text, and would be a valuable addition to any thermographer's bookshelf. -- Kevin Howell * Thermology international Journal *

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Francis Ring is a pharmacologist and clinical scientist with 50 years' experience in quantitative infrared thermal imaging in medicine. He currently leads the Medical Imaging research Group at the Faculty of Advanced Technology. University of Glamorgan, UK, and has published over 300 papers in this area. Anna Jung is professor of Professor of Paediatrics and Nephrology at the Military Institute of Medicine in Warsaw, Poland and has many years' experience in the application of thermographic methods in paediatric diagnostics and has twice served at as the President of the European Association of Thermology. Janusz Zuber is a specialist physician in allergic medicine at the Military Institute of Medicine in Warsaw, Poland with many years' experience of applications of thermography and thermovision in allergology and other branches in medical diagnostics.

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