The most important information obtained by thermographic tests is not the absolute value of the temperature itself, but rather its distribution on space or time variables. Here, the authors propose an effective imaging method for infrared thermographic systems. Especially, it is applied to the change of blood flow detection in the infrared images. This purpose is achieved by using an image-subtraction technique and a spatio-temporal filter for motion enhancement. Through simulation results, it is shown that the change of blood flow is detected clearly
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[Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1999. 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Annual Fall Meetring of the Biomedical Engineering Society] BMES/EMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint
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Date of Conference: Oct 1999