Skin Temperature Bilateral Differences at Upper Limbs and Joints in Healthy Subjects

• Tipo: Artigo em Livro de Atas de Conferência Internacional
• Data: 2018

Autores

Ricardo Vardasca (Autor) FEUP; Maria Teresa Restivo (Autor) FEUP; Joaquim Mendes (Autor) FEUP

Ata de Conferência Internacional

Título: European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering: ECCOMAS 2017: VipIMAGE 2017

Páginas: 1005-1010

6th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing (VipIMAGE)

Porto, PORTUGAL, OCT 18-20, 2017

Indexação

ISI Web of Knowledge - 1 Citação

Scopus - 3 Citações

Outras Informações

ID Authenticus: P-00N-56Z

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-68195-5_110

Abstract (EN): The absence of reference skin temperature values of the upper limbs and joints difficult the wider usage of infrared thermal imaging as a complimentary method for diagnosis and treatment assessment of musculoskeletal conditions affecting the upper extremities. In this research 40 healthy participants were screened with infrared images using internationally accepted capture protocol, and regions of interest such as arm, forearm, hand, shoulder, elbow and wrist both in both anterior and posterior views were characterized in mean temperature distribution and bilateral differences. It was found that the highest bilateral difference was of 0.5 +/- 0.3 degrees C at the anterior forearm region. Being 0.5 degrees C suggested as threshold for further investigation for pathological state.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 6