thermography
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a technique for imitating an embossed appearance, as on business cards, stationery, or the like, by dusting printed areas with a powder that adheres only to the wet ink, and fusing the ink and powder to the paper by heat.
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Medicine/Medical. a technique for measuring regional skin temperatures, used especially as a screening method for detection of breast cancer.
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any writing, printing, or recording process involving the use of heat
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a printing process which produces raised characters by heating special powder or ink placed on the paper
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med the measurement and recording of heat produced by a part of the body: used in the diagnosis of tumours, esp of the breast ( mammothermography ), which have an increased blood supply and therefore generate more heat than normal tissue See also thermogram
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Spectro-polarimetric imaging in the long-wave infrared is crucial for applications such as night vision, machine vision, trace gas sensing and thermography.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 11, 2024
The approach provides richer information about imaged objects, which could broaden the use of thermal imaging in fields such as autonomous navigation, security, thermography, medical imaging and remote sensing.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 11, 2024
He connected with a Canadian Olympic rowing coach who used thermography — heat maps — to help gauge recovery time.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2022
Fire officials say the device is a thermography camera that is designed to locate and analyze the telltale signs of a wildfire.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2019
The procedure is called thermography, and Dr. R. Bowling Barnes, president of Barnes Engineering Corp., which developed the camera, describes the picture taken on photographic film as a "thermal map of the skin."
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