Infrared Thermography in Animals
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Veterinary Clinical Studies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 561
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Interests: veterinary medicine; animal physiology; anatomy; veterinary physiology; veterinary neurology; veterinary clinical neurophysiology; nociception; comparative neurophysiology; ventilation; thermoregulation; precision agriculture; non-invasive diagnosis
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Dear Colleagues,
Infrared thermography (IRT) provides a visual depiction of electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength >750 nm for each pixel on a generated image. In living tissue, this technology provides a contactless non-invasive means to quantify surface-level temperature dynamics. In animals, IRT technology has many applications in understanding the interface between animal surfaces (skin, hair, scale, feather etc.) and their environment. This can be used to study animal thermoregulation and thermal dynamics. Recently, IRT has been used to study animal health issues and in veterinary physiology research. Surface temperature changes alter IRT values in response to tissue warming. These changes can represent tissue perfusion changes from altered vascularity or inflammation. Thermal imaging has been used in the diagnosis and treatment of animal cancers, central nervous system disorders, arthritis, vascular disease, and soft-tissue injuries. IRT offers a fast detection without animal sedation, handling stress or harmful radiation. Establishing norms and generating reliable data is not without its challenges, and there is still much to be learned about normal animal surface temperature patterning.
This Special Issue focuses on the application of infrared thermography in animals. We invite and encourage researchers in this field to submit articles or review manuscripts on one or more different topics, including, but not limited to physiological monitoring, welfare evaluation, disease detection, technique optimization, analysis, and future applications.
Dr. Cord M. Brundage
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- infrared thermography
- thermal imaging
- veterinary physiology
- animal health diagnostics
- non-invasive veterinary diagnostics
- diagnostic imaging
- applications of thermography
- veterinary diagnostic tools
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