Abstract:
Active infrared thermography or thermal wave imaging is one of the
promising non-contact, non-invasive, remote, patient friendly and
safe imaging modality for the testing and evaluation of various biomaterials. Among various thermal wave imaging modalities recently
proposed, frequency modulated thermal wave imaging gained its
acceptance due to its high depth resolvability for visualising the
surface and sub-surface features of the test sample. This is due to its
continuous depth scanning capabilities with the imposed continuous
band of thermal waves with significant and equal magnitudes into
the test sample with moderate peak power imposed heat flux in a
limited span of experimentation time. This Letter highlights a novel
analytical approach for examination of the severity of the osteoporosis.
Further, the proposed analytical treatment is validated with the
results obtained from the commercially available finite-element based
modelling and simulation.
