• DocumentCode
    3685499
  • Title

    Visual methods to assess cold fingers and experimental verification

  • Author

    K. Ishikawa;N. Shimoyama;H. Mannen;K. Kuwabara;H. Matsuoka;K. Oguchi

  • Author_Institution
    Information Networking Laboratory, Faculty of Science and Technology, Seikei University, Musashino, Tokyo 180-8633 Japan
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    6776
  • Lastpage
    6779
  • Abstract
    Cold fingers is complaint of many people. To independently assess actual finger temperature, this paper uses prototype sensors to capture blood vessel width and blood flow rates. We verify their feasibility for future home healthcare use along with far infrared camera outputs. We elucidate the impact of three remedies, massage, hot cocoa, and shoulder exercises, on 7 subjects.
  • Keywords
    "Temperature measurement","Cameras","Biomedical imaging","Blood flow","Thumb"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
  • ISSN
    1094-687X
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1558-4615
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319949
  • Filename
    7319949