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The paper presents the use of dynamic thermography in an assessment of quadriceps activity during a static load in healthy persons and patients with spastic quadriplegia. The differential thermograms relating to the muscle localisation were quantitatively described by the mean and standard deviation of pixels thermal values belonging to the ROI. The obtained trends in temperature distribution in healthy persons correspond to blood flow changes observed by other authors. These trends were opposite to the trend received for the first time in a spastic person. These results suggest that a dynamic thermography may have a potential application in the assessment of spasticity intensity.
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Radomski, D., Kruszewski, K. (2019). Usability of Dynamic Thermography for Assessment of Skeletal Muscle Activity in Physiological and Pathological Conditions – Preliminary Results. In: Pietka, E., Badura, P., Kawa, J., Wieclawek, W. (eds) Information Technology in Biomedicine. ITIB 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 762. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91211-0_51
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