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Understanding Infrared Thermography Reading 3

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3.1 Thermal Instrumentation Overview<br />

Equipment for temperature measurement and thermography includes<br />

contacting as well as noncontacting devices. Contacting devices for<br />

temperature measurement include thermopiles. thermocouples, liquid<br />

thermometers, gas expansion devices (bourdon gas thermometers), liquid<br />

crystals (cholesterol crystals ?), heat flux indicators and fiber optic sensors.<br />

Aside from some specialized instruments, the vast majority of noncontacting<br />

temperature measurement devices are infrared sensing instruments and<br />

systems. <strong>Infrared</strong> sensing instruments and systems are divided into (1) point<br />

sensors (radiation thermometers), (2) line scanners and (3) thermal imagers.<br />

This chapter begins with a review of contacting thermal measurement<br />

instruments and a discussion of the basic configurations of infrared sensing<br />

and imaging instruments. This is followed by a discussion of performance<br />

parameters and, finally, descriptions of commercial thermal sensing and<br />

imaging equipment, thermographic image processing software and image<br />

hard copy recording accessories.<br />

Charlie Chong/ Fion Zhang

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