Abstract:
Infrared thermography is a full field, non-contact
inexpensive, patient friendly and safe imaging modality for
estimation of thermo-physical properties of various biomaterials. Among the widely used thermal wave imaging
modalities, recently proposed frequency modulated thermal
wave imaging technique gained importance due to its quantitative characterization capabilities along with its deeper
subsurface visualizationabilities. This work highlights a novel
analytical analysis for three dimensional Fourier heat diffusion equationby consideringinternal heat generation.An aperiodic pulse compression favorable thermal wave imaging
method is proposed for estimation of thermo-physical properties of bone for identification of severity of osteoporosis.
Effect of osteoporosis on thermo-physical properties such as thermal effusivity and diffusivity has been studied. Further
proposed analytical approach has been validated by results obtained from the commercially available finite element based
COMSOL software.
