The calculation of skin temperature distributions in thermography.

Before calculating the thermal patterns arising from buried heat sources, the factors which control heat loss from the skin and heat transport within tissue are first reviewed and the relevant thermal constants estimated. The various modes of heat loss from the skin seem to be adequately approximated by Newton's law. Temperature distributions due to conduction from veins and tumours are then derived, using line-source and point-source models respectively.

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