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Infrared Thermography Explained

Infrared thermography detects infrared radiation, which is electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths longer than visible light, and produces images called thermograms that show the temperature distribution of objects. Thermography has a long history but its use has increased in recent decades for applications like detecting flu cases, seeing through smoke for firefighting, and finding equipment issues for maintenance. While the equipment is called an infrared thermograph and the method infrared thermography, the terms are increasingly used interchangeably in public literature.

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Infrared Thermography Explained

Infrared thermography detects infrared radiation, which is electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths longer than visible light, and produces images called thermograms that show the temperature distribution of objects. Thermography has a long history but its use has increased in recent decades for applications like detecting flu cases, seeing through smoke for firefighting, and finding equipment issues for maintenance. While the equipment is called an infrared thermograph and the method infrared thermography, the terms are increasingly used interchangeably in public literature.

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Infrared (IR) light is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength longer than that of visible light, measured from the

nominal edge of visible red light at 0.74 micrometers (m), and extending conventionally to 300 m. These wavelengths correspond to a frequency range of approximately 1 to 400 THz,[1] and include most of the thermal radiation emitted by objects near room temperature. Microscopically, IR light is typically emitted or absorbed by molecules when they change their rotational-vibrational movements.Infrared thermography, thermal imaging, and thermal video are examples of infrared imaging science. Thermal imaging cameras detect radiation in the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum (roughly 900014,000 nanometers or 914 m) and produce images of that radiation, called thermograms.

Thermography has a long history, although its use has increased dramatically with the commercial and industrial applications of the past fifty years. Government and airport personnel used thermography to detect suspected swine flu cases during the 2009 pandemic.[1] Firefighters use thermography to see through smoke, to find persons, and to localize the base of a fire. Maintenance technicians use thermography to locate overheating joints and sections of power lines, which are a tell-tale sign of impending failure. Building construction technicians can see thermal signatures that indicate heat leaks in faulty thermal insulation and can use the results to improve the efficiency of heating and air-conditioning units. Some physiological changes in human beings and other warm-blooded animals can also be monitored with thermal imaging during clinical diagnostics.

Infrared thermography is equipment or method, which detects infrared energy emitted from object, converts it to temperature, and displays image of temperature distribution. To be accurate, the equipment and the method should be called differently, the equipment to be called as infrared thermograph and the method to be called as infrared thermography. Recently, however, more and more public literatures show tendency not to pay attention to such appellative. We call our equipment as infrared thermography considering such generalization of the terminology.

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