Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie per la Salute, la Produzione Animale e la Sicurezza Alimentare, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy.
Ann Ist Super Sanita. 2014;50(2):147-52. doi: 10.4415/ANN_14_02_07.
The authors describe the thermography technique in animal production and in veterinary medicine applications. The thermographic technique lends itself to countless applications in biology, thanks to its characteristics of versatility, lack of invasiveness and high sensitivity. Probably the major limitation to most important aspects for its application in the animal lies in the ease of use and in its extreme sensitivity.
This review provides an overview of the possible applications of the technique of thermo visual inspection, but it is clear that every phenomenon connected to temperature variations can be identified with this technique. Then the operator has to identify the best experimental context to obtain as much information as possible, concerning the physiopathological problems considered. Furthermore, we reported an experimental study about the thermography (IRT) as a noninvasive technique to assess the state of wellbeing in working dogs.
The first results showed the relationship between superficial temperatures and scores obtained by the animal during the behavioral test. This result suggests an interesting application of infrared thermography (IRT) to measure the state of wellbeing of animals in a noninvasive way.
作者描述了在动物生产和兽医医学应用中的热成像技术。由于其多功能性、非侵入性和高灵敏度的特点，热成像技术在生物学中有着无数的应用。也许该技术在动物应用中最重要的方面的主要限制在于其易用性和极高的灵敏度。
本综述概述了热视觉检查技术的可能应用，但很明显，任何与温度变化有关的现象都可以用这种技术来识别。然后，操作人员必须确定最佳的实验环境，以尽可能多地获得有关所考虑的生理病理问题的信息。此外，我们还报告了一项关于热成像（IRT）作为一种非侵入性技术来评估工作犬健康状况的实验研究。
初步结果表明，表面温度与动物在行为测试中获得的分数之间存在关系。这一结果表明，红外热成像（IRT）在非侵入性测量动物健康状况方面具有有趣的应用。
