Technion Research & Development Foundation Ltd

Naama Gordon

Rafael Beyar

Samuel Sideman

A method for determining a flow rate of a substance or a thermo-contrast agent in an object including a surface and an upstream region, and the method comprising the steps of (a) providing the upstream region with a thermo-contrast agent; (b) obtaining successive temperature readings of at least a part of the surface of the object; (c) generating a temperature response curve from the temperature readings; (d) extracting a parameter from the temperature response curve; and (e) determining the flow rate from the parameter.

Determining blood flow by measurement of temperature

Methods for determining the flow rate of a substance within an object by extracting and mathematically manipulating numerical parameters from a thermoimaging temperature response curve of the surface of the object. The methods of the present invention are suitable to determine coronary arteries flow rates and myocardial perfusion rates in open chest conditions.

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