(n.) The art of measuring degrees of heat, or the expansion of bodies by heat.
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Thermometry
Definition:
(n.) The estimation of temperature by the use of a thermometric apparatus.
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(1) This apparatus offers considerable scope for advance in the field of thermometry in anaesthesia.
(2) To date, satisfactory thermal dosimetry during the clinical application of localized hyperthermia can only be achieved using invasive thermometry.
(3) Skin thermometry and reflex vasodilatation was studied in eight cases.
(4) Thermal asymmetry of the lumbar region were revealed in 22 patients by means of contact thermometry.
(5) Finally, we studied the influence of a perfused phantom to the microwave thermometry.
(6) Two temperature probes (a fluoroptic sensor and a metallic thermistor), which are both suitable for stereotaxic implantation, were used in comparative thermometry studies during interstitial microwave heating of the brain in vivo.
(7) Data from animal experiments indicate that the use of thermometry probes within such a catheter provides reliable temperature measurements.
(8) Catheter thermometry was performed at each hyperthermia treatment.
(9) The authors have studied the action of nicotinate of xantinol on the placental, myometrial and cervical circulations using an isotope technique (Indium 113) and anemometric thermometry.
(10) For thermometry multiple catheters (mean 2.7) were inserted into the treatment volume.
(11) A regularity was revealed according to which numerical determination of heat emission in combination with thermometry in characteristic points of the leg and foot was a good test in determining the stage of the disease and a prognostic index of the efficacy of lumbar sympathectomy and rehabilitation of the patient in the immediate and late-term postoperative period.
(12) Thermometry data indicate that for low-power exposures the major error in thermographic measurements obtained after termination of heating is due to thermal diffusion and not evaporative cooling in the opened midplane of the phantom.
(13) Thermometry, thermography, digital plethysmography under hot and cold conditions, videomicroscopy of the nailbed, percutaneous PO2 and laser-doppler tests measure functional parameters, the hemodynamic significance of which require discussion.
(14) Infrared thermometry provided the noncontact measurement of temperature.
(15) These findings indicate that local hyperthermia applied by this method is effective in the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia and that improvement of the thermometry system is needed.
(16) Methods of investigating tissue blood flows include skin thermometry, thermal conductance or clearance, transcutaneous PO2, laser doppler flux, and photoplethysmographic techniques.
(17) It was shown that graphic presentation of data of liquid crystal thermography and electron thermometry remarkably facilitates documentation and analysis of the results obtained.
(18) The changes in mean body temperature (delta Tb) measured by thermometry showed a delay of 5-10 min when compared with delta Tb measured by calorimetry.
(19) The state of regional hemodynamics in crural ulcers was studied in 180 patients by means of hemodynamic tests, oscillography, capillaroscopy, thermometry, phlebotonometry, phlebography.
(20) To test this model a series of experiments was carried out in adult dogs in which stereotaxically implanted microwave antennas operating at 2450 MHz, fluoro-optical thermometry probes, and platinum electrodes were used to simultaneously measure CBF by thermal washout and hydrogen clearance techniques.