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US 12,264,969 B1Granted
Devices and methods for detecting inflammation
AssigneeExergen Corporation
InventorFrancesco Pompei
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Abstract
A temperature detector is provided that is particularly suited towards the differential measurement of foot temperatures in diabetics. A radiation sensor views a surface area of the body and provides a radiation sensor output. Electronics coupled to the radiation sensor and an ambient temperature sensor compute a normalized surface temperature of the area normalized to a specified ambient temperature as a function of a sensed ambient temperature and a sensed radiation.
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An injury monitoring system comprising:
- a radiation sensor which views a surface area of a body and provides a radiation sensor output;
- an ambient temperature sensor which provides an ambient temperature sensor output;
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- electronics coupled to the radiation sensor and the ambient temperature sensor which compute a normalized surface temperature of the surface area normalized to a specified ambient temperature as a function of the ambient temperature sensor output and the radiation sensor output, the computed normalized surface temperature of the surface area indicative of an injury when a temperature differential between the surface area of the body and another surface area of the body, calculated using the computed normalized surface temperature, is greater than a threshold temperature differential.
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A method of detecting injury comprising:
- receiving a measured ambient sensor output and a radiation sensor output from a temperature detector comprising:
- a radiation sensor which views a surface area of a body and provides the radiation sensor output;
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- an ambient temperature sensor which provides the ambient temperature sensor output;
- computing, by electronics coupled to the temperature detector, a first normalized surface temperature of a first surface t area of the body as a function of the ambient sensor output and the radiation sensor output;
- computing, by the electronics coupled to the temperature detector, a second normalized surface temperature of a second surface area of the body as a function of the ambient sensor output and the radiation sensor output;
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- calculating a difference between the first normalized surface temperature and the second normalized temperature, the calculated difference indicative of an injury.
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