Title :
A method of painless determination tissue metabolic rate at steady temperature field
Author :
Shang, Zhigang ; Jiang, Guotai
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Life Sci. & Med. Eng., Tongji Univ., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
Presents a method of painless determination of tissue metabolic rate at a steady temperature field. On the assumption that the relationship T(x) between the temperature T of the inner body at different positions and the positions x is a quadratic equation, the surface temperature of the human body is obtained by infrared thermography. We deduced the relationship between the apparent conductivity and different positions according to a classical bio-heat transfer function. Then we calculated the tissue metabolic rate at the corresponding position keeping the temperature field of the inner body stable, and verified this method by experiment and calculation.
Keywords :
biological tissues; biomedical imaging; biothermics; heat transfer; infrared imaging; physiological models; temperature distribution; temperature measurement; apparent conductivity; classical bio-heat transfer function; infrared thermography; inner body; quadratic equation; steady temperature field; surface temperature; tissue metabolic rate; Biochemistry; Blood; Differential equations; Heat transfer; Humans; Infrared heating; Temperature distribution; Temperature measurement; Thermal conductivity; Transfer functions;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2001. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7211-5
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1020636
