Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 28, Issue 4 , Pages 363-371 , May 2006

A comparative study for the development of a thermal odoscope for the wearable dynamic thermography monitoring

We dedicate this paper to our friend Charly Maccioni

  • D. Giansanti

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento Tecnologie e Salute, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena, 299, 00161 Rome
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +39 6 49902701/2089; fax: +39 6 49387079.
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  • G. Maccioni

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento Tecnologie e Salute, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena, 299, 00161 Rome
    • ,
  • G.E. Gigante

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Fisica, Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche e Naturali, Università “La Sapienza”, Rome

Received 19 January 2005 ,Revised 1 July 2005 ,Accepted 7 July 2005.

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doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2005.07.003

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 28, Issue 4 , Pages 363-371 , May 2006

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