Barber InSys has signed an exclusive contract to distribute, in the UK, EDP's medically approved thermal imaging camera system - the Thermo Iewey.
Barber InSys has signed an exclusive contract to distribute, in the UK, EDP's medically approved thermal imaging camera system - the Thermo Iewey.
The Italian company has designed the medical, infrared camera to carry out a thermographic examination of the human body.
The market place is full of different infrared cameras dedicated to the field predictive maintenance, building diagnostic and process control.
These areas require different spectral bands and sensitivities, whereas the medical infrared camera is designed especially for medical applications.
The product is supported by special medical software.
This includes a module that allows the camera to operate in real time.
Working in real-time mode, it is possible to improve the quality of the thermograms, using automatic adaptation of sensitivity and palette shifting.
These functions help to generate colour-stable thermograms.
The capturing utility has a built-in automatic noise-reduction system and software interpolation algorithm that allows clear images to be created, and increases resolution to 640 by 480 pixels (16 times the hardware resolution).
Moreover, the software offers 3D reconstruction of thermogram and numerous useful 'plug-in' applications (for example, isotherms and histograms) and palettes that allow thermograms to be examined easily.
The device has a CE certificate, and conforms to 93/42/EEC Medical Device Directive.
Accompanying the camera is a book entitled 'Medical Infrared Thermography', which brings together the author's (Dr Alexey Ovechkin) personal clinical experience spanning more than 20 years.
The physical basis of the method, a review of modern infrared devices and physiological features of temperature are described in the publication.
The clinical thermography chapter contains descriptions of thermo-visual symptoms of more than 200 diseases and pathological conditions.
All cases are illustrated by corresponding thermograms, extracted from the author's personal databases.
The book contains 532 pages with 915 thermograms, 76 figures and 274 references.
