Abstract
The electronic display of a thermal image from an infrared camera is comprized of a number of time scans which a computer converts into an array of a number of points (pixels) of different thermal values. For quantification purposes each pixel may be considered to possess three positional characteristics:
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Location along the horizontal axis (xi)
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Location vertically (yi)
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A thermal location (zi) in a plane directed towards the camera at right angles to the x,y plane.
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Thomas, D.P.P. (1984). Information Theory and Thermographic Quantification. In: Ring, E.F.J., Phillips, B. (eds) Recent Advances in Medical Thermology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7697-2_26
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