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Thermography: Measurement of the regional temperature of the body or an organ by infrared sensing devices, based on self-emanating infrared radiation.
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Quantitative Visualization and Detection of Skin Cancer Using Dynamic Thermal Imaging


JoVE 2679 5/05/2011

Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University

We demonstrated that malignant pigmented lesions with increased metabolic activity generate quantifiable amounts of heat and the measurement of the transient thermal response of the skin to a cooling excitation allows quantitative identification of melanoma and other skin cancers (vs. non-proliferative nevi) at an early stage of the disease.

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