thermography

Thermography is the science of any infrared imaging or video. This type of imaging has the ability to detect radiation in the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum. Essentially, it produces thermograms, or images of that radiation.

Although thermography has been used extensively by military personnel (i.e. warm objects – like humans – stand out well against cooler backgrounds when viewed through a thermographic camera at night), the technology is now available to the common man.

The price tag is not cheap. Expect to pay between $4,000 and $6,000 for a thermographic camera. However, with one of these cameras you can see a visual picture of temperatures over large areas, find deteriorating (i.e. higher temperature components) prior to their failure, observe areas which are inaccessible or hazardous to go, find defects in shafts, pipes, and other metal or plastic parts, and, most importantly, to see better in dark areas! Because infrared radiation is emitted by all objects, thermography makes it possible to "see" one's environment with or without visible illumination.

Bloggers speaking about thermography can be found at such sites as breasthealthblog and weddingbeepro.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “thermography”

• Annual Mammography Screenings Cause Breast Cancer?

  
  Klinika Kinetics — Authority: 99
  A new study presented on December 1 at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) verified that annual mammography screenings may be responsible for causing breast cancer in women who are predisposed to the disease. Epidemiologist Marijke C. Jansen-van der Weide from the University ...
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• A Boob-Related Post

  
  XUP — Authority: 122
  This post is going to talk a little bit about boobs. But not in a sexy way, so unless you have boobs or are very close to someone with boobs, this probably won’t interest you. I have a lot of issues with mammograms. The first one being that I personally know four women who’ve had false negative mammogram results. ...
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• Video Clip: Thermography Out-Takes from "Recognizing the Horse in Pain" DVD

  
  Fran Jurga's "HoofBlog": Up-to-the Minute News from Hoofcare & Lameness Journal — Authority: 121
  by Fran Jurga |30 November 2009 | Fran Jurgas Hoof BlogA few weeks ago, we introduced a new DVD on this blog. "Recognizing the Horse in Pain" is an interesting survey of subtle lameness problems in performance horses by Dr Joanna Robson, a veterinarian in the Bay Area of Northern California.In this little clip, you ...
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• Breast Thermography for Early Detection of Breast Cancer

  
  HealthMad — Authority: 485
  Breast cancer is the leading cancer in women. Early detection of breast cancer increases chances of total recovery. Traditional recommendations by far have been regular and periodic self examination and annual check ups using mammography. Mammograms can also detect microcalcifications (calcium deposits) in the breast. ...
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• To Mammogram…Or Not

  
  Agriculture Society — Authority: 120
  Indeed, cancer is a scary thing. For as long as I can remember, women have been advised to start getting mammograms over the age of 40 as part of a preventative program for reducing the risk of breast cancer and/or detecting it early enough to be able to go on the appropriate program to be able to remove it should it ...
  3 weeks ago

• To Mammogram…Or Not

  
  Agriculture Society — Authority: 120
  Indeed, cancer is a scary thing. For as long as I can remember, women have been advised to start getting mammograms over the age of 40 as part of a preventative program for reducing the risk of breast cancer and/or detecting it early enough to be able to go on the appropriate program to be able to remove it should it ...
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• Cheap Thermoscanner Based on Arduino

  
  Embedded projects from around the web — Authority: 126
  Did you have some spare Arduino that being stored for a long time inside the storeroom? If you can spend few hours in the weekend, then you might be interested to build up a marvelous yet cheap Thermoscanner. The definition “Thermoscanner” is actually the short form of “Thermography scanner”. Oh, talking ...
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• Mammograms at 50: A Female Doctor Speaks Out

  
  Single Minded Women — Authority: 437
  My father was a radiology doctor who specialized in mammograms, so I grew up around those machines that take two perfectly good knockers and squash them into Swedish pancakes. Dad used to joke that if women were in charge of medicine, men would have to stick their penises between two plates and get “manograms” ...
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• Mammograms at 50: A Female Doctor Speaks Out

  
  Single Minded Women — Authority: 437
  My father was a radiology doctor who specialized in mammograms, so I grew up around those machines that take two perfectly good knockers and squash them into Swedish pancakes. Dad used to joke that if women were in charge of medicine, men would have to stick their penises between two plates and get “manograms” ...
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• Better to Rethink Mammogram

  
  Natural Health News — Authority: 135
  Mammogram accounts for finding 10% of all breast cancer cases. The woman herself discovers the other 90% of breast cancer cases. Although the numbers are recorded separately from other breast cancers by the American Cancer Society, DCIS, Ductile Carcinoma in Situ accounts for 40% of all breast cancer detected by ...
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