Aplicações da Termografia em Saúde: Uma Revisão de Literatura

The purpose of the research was to present an updated bibliographical revision related to the applications of Thermography in health. Within the months of November and December 2015, a bibliographical data collection was performed, and all published articles between 2005 and 2015 were selected. By means of a rigorous reading of such articles, and crossrelating content and subject to be researched. After selecting the articles, they were organized in accordance to their year of publication, title, used method, results and conclusions achieved. Upon bibliographical conclusion, it was concluded that the Infrared Imaging Technology has been substantially evolving throughout time. It stands as a complementary methodology of diagnostics with high accuracy, and which has been more and more used in medicine to assess physiological and functional changes, being of great importance as anadditional diagnostictool, and for the evaluation of therapeutical treatments.