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    A thermographic study of the effect of body composition and ambient temperature on the accuracy of mean skin temperature calculations (1987)
    Springer
    European journal of applied physiology 56 (1987), S. 120-125 
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    ISSN: 1439-6327
    Keywords: Body temperature ; Skinfold ; Cold ; Torso
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary The problem associated with using measurements from a small number of sites to determine mean skin temperature was investigated by studying variations in distributions of skin temperatures of the bare torsos of humans exposed to ambient temperatures of 18, 23, and 28° C. Following a 60 minute equilibration period the temperatures of four regions (chest, abdomen, upper back, and lower back) were measured using both thermistors and an infra-red thermographic system. Regions of the torso usually represented by a single temperature exhibited significant point-to-point temperature variations especially in chilled subjects. Also an earlier finding was confirmed: in that larger variations in skin temperature distributions occur as body fat content increases. Caution must therefore be used in applying the concept of a mean skin temperature derived from a few select sites, especially with nude subjects who are chilled or have a high body fat content.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00696387
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    Measurement of torso skin temperature under clothing (1988)
    Springer
    European journal of applied physiology 57 (1988), S. 225-229 
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    ISSN: 1439-6327
    Keywords: Cold ; Thermography ; Insulation
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary The influence of clothing on skin temperature distributions of the torso was investigated during and after cold exposure. Volunteers were cooled for one hour at 5° C while wearing clothing designed to have insulation which was intended to be relatively uniformly distributed. Three different thicknesses of clothing were used. Following thermistor measurements of skin temperatures during the cold exposures, clothing was quickly removed from the upper parts of the body to enable thermographic investigations of the temperature distributions of the front of the bare torso. The evolution of temperature distributions were then studied at different ambient temperatures (5° C and 20° C) as a function of the thickness of the insulation which had previously been worn. The patterns of the temperature distributions, and the range and standard deviation of torso temperatures were all found to be relatively constant in spite of the different thicknesses of clothing worn or in the time-variant mean torso temperatures which resulted. The front torso sites normally used for the determination of mean skin temperatures were found to be on portions of the torso which were cooler than the surrounding regions. It was concluded that a site midway between the umbilicus and a nipple yields a more accurate estimate of mean torso temperature in the conditions of the present study.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00640667
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