Method and apparatus for measuring physiology by means of infrared detector
CA 2434174 A1 · Owner: Fauci, Mark A. · Inventors: Fauci, Mark A.
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An infrared camera provides a series of infrared images frames of a part of the human body. A preferred camera is equipped with a focal plane array (10) of gallium arsenide quantum-well infrared photodetectors (QWIP). The infrared images are transmitted to a processor which processes each image into a multiplicity of small sub-areas (12). In each sub-area temperature variation , is measured of time and variation in the sub-area is represented as a temperature code (14). The temperature codes are then displayed as colors in each sub-area of the infrared image (16). In the preferred embodiment physiological changes of the brain are observed as different parts of the brain function.
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