Abstract
In the medical field, new technologies are incorporated for the sole purpose of enhancing the quality of life for the patients and even for the normal healthy people. Infrared technology is one of the technologies that have some applications in both the medical and biological fields. In this work, the thermal infrared (IR) measurement is used to investigate the potential of skin cancer detection. IR enjoys non-invasive and non-contact advantages as well as favorable cost, apparently. It is also very well developed regarding the technological and methodological aspects. IR per se is an electro-metric radiation that all objects emit when their temperature is above the absolute zero. And the human body is not different in this regard. The IR range extends, ideally, to cover wavelengths from 800 nanometer to few hundred micrometer. Cancer, in modern life, has grown tangibly due to many factors, such as life expectancies increase, personal habits and ultraviolet radiation exposures among others. Moreover, the significant enhancement of technologies has helped identifying more types of cancers than before. The sole purpose of this work is to investigate further IR technology methods and applications not yet matured in skin cancer detection to enhance the detection ability with higher safety level.
Highlights
Every object above absolute zero temperature (0 K) emits infrared (IR) electromagnetic radiation
The thermal infrared (IR) measurement is used to investigate the potential of skin cancer detection
The sole purpose of this work is to investigate further IR technology methods and applications not yet matured in skin cancer detection to enhance the detection ability with higher safety level
Summary
Every object above absolute zero temperature (0 K) emits infrared (IR) electromagnetic radiation. The natural emission of thermal infrared (IR) from the human body adds an important advantage to any approach that is based on measuring and analyzing this natural thermal emission. This makes such a technique clearly superior to any other invasive approach. The regular definition of cancer is likely to contain an indication to abnormal growth of cells due to changes in gene expression which causes loss of control exerted normally on human cells. IR radiation from human skin seems to be accompanied with functional properties [2] This is considered as an advantage that is always welcomed.
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