Keywords:
Experimental, Not applicable, Tissue characterisation, Technical aspects, CT, Animal (veterinary) studies, Performed at one institution
Authors:
S. Mizukami, H. Hara, D. Hatakeyama, E. Kanai, D. Yokoyama, H. Muraishi, T. Gomi; Sagamihara, Kanagawa/JP
DOI:
10.26044/ecr2020/C-07853
Purpose
Human body temperature has served as one of the most fundamental vital signs for clinical diagnosis and daily healthcare. Body temperature is generated by vital reactions. Therefore, measurement of body temperature may sense signs of disease or recovery, and has been studied in several disease states or health conditions1, 2).
In clinical, several minimally invasive procedures (hyperthermia therapy, radiofrequency ablation and cryotherapy etc.) for the local treatment are evolved and use of those is increasing3) (Fig. 1 and Fig. 2). In those therapy, measurement of tissue temperature may reduce the risk of under treated tissue. But temperature monitoring which require the insertion of the sensing element into organ is invasive techniques and not widespread monitoring.
Recently, different noninvasive techniques for measuring and visualizing human body to internal temperatures have been proposed4-6). We focus on X-ray CT based thermometry and attempted to measure and visualize the temperature distribution of swine histological samples and living body tissue in swine.