<title>Digital IR imaging capability for medical applications</title>

Digital readout integrated circuit (DROIC) implementing time delay and integration (TDI) for scanning type infrared focal plane arrays (IRFPAs)

“…Infrared imaging technology has been developed first in the 1950s to be used in military surveillance systems and it has been a very useful tool for many military and civilian applications such as IR search and track [5] [6], medical examination [7], astronomy [8], forward-looking infrared (FLIR) systems [9], missile guidance [10], security [11], process control [12], environmental monitoring [13] and spectroscopy [14]. The main motivation for the IR technology was military demands at the beginning, and it is still the main driving force to develop high-performance IR detectors and imaging systems.…”