Evaluation of Perfusion and Thermal Parameters of Skin Tissue Using Cold Provocation and Thermographic Measurements.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Strąkowska, Maria; Strąkowski, Robert; Strzelecki, Michał; Mey, Gilbert de; Więcek, Bogusław
- Source
- Metrology & Measurement Systems. Sep2016, Vol. 23 Issue 3, p373-381. 9p.
- Subject
- *PELTIER effect
*PERFUSION
*SKIN tests
*SKIN temperature
*MEASUREMENT uncertainty (Statistics)
- Language
- ISSN
- 2080-9050
Measurement of the perfusion coefficient and thermal parameters of skin tissue using dynamic thermography is presented in this paper. A novel approach based on cold provocation and thermal modelling of skin tissue is presented. The measurement was performed on a person's forearm using a special cooling device equipped with the Peltier module. The proposed method first cools the skin, and then measures the changes of its temperature matching the measurement results with a heat transfer model to estimate the skin perfusion and other thermal parameters. In order to assess correctness of the proposed approach, the uncertainty analysis was performed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]