Thermal measuring and testing – Temperature measurement – In spaced noncontact relationship to specimen
Patent
1985-05-03
1986-12-02
Frankfort, Charles
Thermal measuring and testing
Temperature measurement
In spaced noncontact relationship to specimen
374159, 374161, 128736, G01J 508, G01K 1120, G01K 1300
Patent
active
046261109
ABSTRACT:
An optical fiber temperature sensing probe is implanted into a human body or other object that is being heated, either by ultrasonic radiation alone or by a combination of ultrasonic and electromagnetic (radio frequency or microwave) energy. In order to measure temperature in an ultrasound field without the probe introducing errors, the probe is made to be substantially thermally non-conducting, made of materials that do not absorb compressional energy, and has a small diameter relative to the length of the ultrasonic heating waves.
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Sun Mei H.
Wickersheim Kenneth A.
Frankfort Charles
Luxtron Corporation
Will Thomas B.
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