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Understanding Infrared Thermography Reading 3

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Minimum Resolvable Temperature Difference<br />

Minimum resolvable temperature (MRT) or minimum resolvable temperature<br />

difference (MRTD) replaces temperature sensitivity and is defined as the<br />

smallest blackbody equivalent larget lemperature difference Ihat can be<br />

observed OUI of system noise on a thermogram. As in radiation thennometry.<br />

this difference improves (becomes smaller) with increasing target temperature<br />

and is expressed in those terms. An example of a typical minimum resolvable<br />

temperature diffe rence speci fi cation for a line scanner or an imager would<br />

be "MRTD = 0.05 °C at 25 °C target temperature (0.09 OF at 77<br />

OF),“ Minimum resolvable temperature difference may also depend on the<br />

spatial frequency imposed by the test discipline. The test techniques for<br />

checking minimum resolvable temperature difference is described in Chapter<br />

4,<br />

Comments: Temperature sensitivity is also called: thermal resolution or<br />

noise equivalent temperature difference (NETD).<br />

Charlie Chong/ Fion Zhang

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