| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/R50134/01 |
| Title: |
A Visiting Fellowship for Dr Kurt Ammer to work at the Glamorgan Thermal Physiology Laboratory |
| Principal Investigator: |
Jones, Professor B |
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Sch of Computing |
| Organisation: |
University of Glamorgan |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 June 2001 |
Ends: |
31 January 2002 |
Value (£): |
20,264
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Image & Vision Computing |
Information & Knowledge Mgmt |
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The Medical Computing Research Unit at Glamorgan has been awarded 80k over three years to establish a Thermal Physiology Laboratory; human physiology will be studied by computational analysis of infrared thermal images. The laboratory will be environmentally controlled so that subjects will come to thermal equilibrium at a temperature between 20 and 24-C; this temperature has been standardised internationally to prevent vasoconstriction and increase the contrast in skin temperature resulting from changes in blood perfusion. We are embarking on a project to produce a database of thermograms of normal subjects and to make that widely available via the web. Several internationally renowned centres of thermography (in Austria, USA, Japan, Italy) have agreed to participate by providing images. This proposal seeks funds to support Dr K Ammer as a visiting Fellow for two periods of two months to advise on the establishment of the Laboratory. Dr Ammer is a clinician at the Ludwig Boltzmann Research Institute in Vienna and is an expert in the interpretation of thermograms; his expertise is complementary to that of the Medical Computing Research Unit whose interests lie mainly in medical imaging. We will analyse Dr Ammer's approach to capturing and interpreting thermograms and incorporate that knowledge into a standard protocol for obtaining images in the Laboratory and into our image analysis software.
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http://www.glam.ac.uk |