Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 30, Issue 6 , Pages 733-738 , July 2008

Improving spatial resolution in skin-contact thermography: Comparison between a spline based and linear interpolation

Received 29 January 2007 ,Revised 30 July 2007 ,Accepted 8 August 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2007.08.002

Medical Engineering & Physics
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