Method and apparatus for measuring body core temperature and core to skin temperature gradients
OwnerBenjamin Ver Steeg, Craig William Whiteinventors
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Abstract
A temperature measurement device, comprising a spectral measurement system, configured to determine the absorbance of tissue at a plurality of frequencies, and an analysis system, configured to determine the temperature of the tissue from the determined absorbance, wherein water has a temperature dependent absorption at one of the plurality of frequencies that is different than that at another of the plurality of frequencies.
Claims2
A temperature measurement device, comprising a spectral measurement system, configured to determine the absorbance of tissue at a plurality of frequencies, and an analysis system, configured to determine the temperature of the tissue from the determined absorbance, wherein water has a temperature dependent absorption at one of the plurality of frequencies that is different than that at another of the plurality of frequencies.
Methods and apparatuses as described herein.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.