Infrared thermography and NDT: 2050 horizon

Infrared and terahertz in application to biomedicine

“…Today potential and existing IR and THz technology applications are broad in such diverse fields as astronomy, military and surveillance applications, telecommunications, energy control, space research, missile systems, and defense, signature analysis, biomedicine, etc. [5][6][7][8] In biomedical applications these technologies are frequently used for breast cancer diagnostics both in preclinical research settings as well as in the clinical assessment of patients, [9][10][11][12] though they can be applied for a number of other biomedical tasks. 13,14 Because of the relatively large width of the THz spectra THz radiation is of great importance in terms of fundamental researches as well as in technology and life sciences, as in this region rotational and vibrational lines of a lot of substances are located e.g.…”

“…Infrared thermography has emerged in recent years as an attractive and reliable technique to address complex non-destructive (NDT) problems. 12 THz waves are relatively short to provide spatial resolution of less than 1mm. Yet they are long enough to penetrate most nonmetallic substances, such as materials used to make clothing, rucksacks, etc.…”

Infrared and terahertz in biomedicine

“…IR and THz technologies are well developed for astronomy, military and surveillance applications, Earth surface control, heat stress diagnostics in industrial processes, thermal conductivity of samples with IR thermography, breast cancer diagnostics, thermography in semiconductor reliability testing, control in building enclosures and art, tank levels of liquids, automotive applications, gas analyzers (see, e.g., [55][56][57][58][59]) and in biomedical applications mainly for breast cancer diagnostics both in preclinical research settings as well as in the clinical assessment of patients (see, e.g., [28,44,45,53,60]). …”

“…Infrared thermography has emerged in recent years as an attractive and reliable technique to address complex nondestructive (NDT) problems [53]. But in its applications one should take into account that medical infrared imaging can only be applied by physicians who have been educated and trained intensively as well as have received a medical certificate [54].…”

Infrared vision for artwork and cultural heritage NDE studies: principles and case studies

“…Among the many non-destructive evaluation (NDE) techniques around [1] , infrared vision [2,3] is used in this paper for the inspection of cultural heritage artefacts and monuments. Infrared vision is the broad term that encompasses imaging techniques that are sensitive to infrared wavelengths from 0.75 µm (just past the visible spectrum) up to 1000 µm in the terahertz band (right before the microwaves).…”