Thermal Imaging in Therapy and Assessment in Physical Medicine
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Care Sciences & Services".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 July 2023) | Viewed by 4599
Special Issue Editors
Interests: thermal imaging; thermovision; medical physics; physical diagnosis and therapy methods in medicine; cryotherapy
Interests: physical medicine; thermal imaging; cryotherapy; cryogenic temperatures; vascular medicine; oxidative stress; rehabilitation; internal medicine
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Dear Colleagues,
There are many different diseases that are clinical, social and economic problem. For example, the incidence of breast cancer has been increasing worldwide for many years, and as a result the number of deaths is also increasing. This situation necessitates scientific research and clinical work research and clinical work leading to the development of existing diagnostic methods and the introduction new ones, which can be used as a screening method or supplement the data obtained from the standard diagnostic methods or even allow evaluate fast and safety the results of used therapy. The basic idea of the research is to use thermal imaging due to asymmetry or uncharacteristic distribution of the temperature of the body surface visible on the thermal image. When imaging symmetrical body parts such as breasts, one should look for thermal asymmetry occurring between two glands. Thermal imaging can be significant helpful device in the assessment of the effects of treatment of many different diseases, e.g. of the spine, hard-to -heal wounds, skin cancer treated by photodynamic therapy or radiotherapy used in breast cancer, what has been shown in many papers in the literature.
It should be emphasized that thermography gives information about changes in tissue physiology. Very often this argument is mentioned as one of the most important in the diagnosis. Moreover, thermal image indirectly provides information on the course of angiogenesis by showing the course of newly formed blood vessels in the form of elongated areas The thermal image also indirectly provides information on the course of angiogenesis metabolic activity, but not about the internal structure. However, it can be assumed that this information may be equally, if not more diagnostically the risk of disease, since it is the physiological changes that appear long before It is the physiological changes that may occur long before the structural changes that can be seen, e.g. by ultrasonography.
The special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) focuses on the current state of knowledge on the use of thermal imaging in different kind of therapy. New research papers, reviews, case reports and conference papers are welcome to this issue. Other manuscript types accepted include methodological papers, position papers, brief reports, and commentaries.
We will accept manuscripts from different disciplines including radiotherapy, brachytherapy, photodynamic therapy, surgery, physiotherapy, laser therapy, manual therapy or cryotherapy, hyperbaric oxygen therapy as well as sport medicine and wellness. The most important is to present the usefulness of thermal imaging in evaluation of chosen therapy effects.
Dr. Armand Cholewka
Prof. Dr. Agata Stanek
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- thermal imaging
- thermovision
- medical physics
- physical diagnosis and therapy methods in medicine
- cryotherapy
- physical medicine
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