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How the Pit Viper Measures Infrared Radiation
Like the IRt/c Infrared Thermocouple, the pit viper has the ability to “see” infrared radiation. Pit vipers comprise a family of snakes that share a sophisticated thermal adaptation that stems from the evolution of specialized pit organs located near their eyes. These organs sense the infrared radiation of an approaching...
Exergen Global’s Temperature Sensor Ensures Safety, Efficiency for Ablation System
Exergen Non-Contact Sensor Plays Key Role in NeuWave Medical’s Certus® 140 Cooling System NeuWave Medical Inc. develops devices that deliver energy to the human body to treat a variety of serious medical conditions. The company’s Certus® 140 Microwave Ablation System is the premier soft tissue ablation offering worldwide. It is...
Measuring Blood Temperature in Perfusion Systems
When supplying blood to patients it is essential that the blood’s temperature is carefully warmed to 37°C to ensure patient safety and wellbeing. Blood must be warmed to this temperature prior to infusion, because, depending on its source, the blood can be at room temperature, refrigerated or any temperature in...
Non-Contact Heat Sealing Temperature Control for Packaging Machinery with IRt/c’s
IRt/c infrared thermocouples can accurately control the temperature of rotating and moving stainless steel heaters common in the packaging industry, without touching the heaters. Typically, uncoated stainless steel heaters are difficult for IR sensors to measure reliably because of reflected infrared signals that can change after a heater surface is...
Vacuum Sealing Packing Machines
We like our food to be as fresh as can be. Vacuum-Sealing packaging can extend the shelf life of food products by preventing exposure to the natural atmosphere, thereby slowing down the microbial deterioration of the product. The vacuum also fixes the product within the pack, providing a degree of...
Tips & Tricks in the IR Market
Aren't you amazed at how a human eye works? These two small spheres in your head manage to do effortlessly what even the biggest, most sophisticated cameras cannot do. They can aim your view and focus to get a sharp image (not an easy task as the signals from both...
Through the Looking Glass
The Story of Alice’s Quest for Emissivity “It’s all done with mirrors!’’ “What do I see when I look in my mirror?” asked Alice. “I see myself, of course.” “But what about the mirror why can’t I see the mirror itself” she pondered. “Maybe it’s because the mirror is invisible?...
An Accurate Thermometer is First Line of Defense in Preventing a Measles Epidemic
Thermometers are Must-Pack Items for Summer Travel Before they zip up the duffle bag or shut the suitcase, parents across the country have one more thing to pack before they head off for vacation this summer: an accurate thermometer. Reported measles epidemic cases have exceeded 1,000 in the first six...
Increasing Safety, Reliability and Speed for Diagnostic Procedures
Help Your Customers Increase Safety, Reliability & Speed with Exergen’s IR Sensors. For processes such as diagnostic procedures, skin treatments and medical interventions where blood or saline solutions are involved, temperature monitoring and control are essential in the success and reliability of the procedure. Employing IRt/c technology increases the speed...
Point-of-Care Testing (POCT)
Point-of-care testing (POCT) is medical diagnostic testing performed at or near a patient’s bedside. As opposed to conventional medical testing, which entails sending specimens to laboratories, POCT yields results in minutes instead of hours or days. POCT can include blood glucose testing, blood gas, metabolites and electrolytes analysis, etc. Tests...
Exergen Sensors Ensure Safety, Efficacy in Fluid Infusion for Medical Procedures
In a broad spectrum of medical procedures, infusing normothermic fluid is the key to better patient outcomes. That’s particularly true in trauma situations when quick delivery of blood products to patients is essential for their survival. In many of these instances, medical professionals rely on portable fluid infusion devices that...
Exergen’s Non-Contact Sensors Protect Equipment Using Flanged Inline Heaters
Challenge A large electric air heating solutions company needed a very fast thermal management solution to prevent overheating of the air heater element used in its flanged inline heaters. The heaters are employed in industrial processing and R&D settings and are built to handle a wide range of extremely demanding...
Amateur NASCAR Race Team Drives Winning Results with Exergen Thermal Sensors
Chapmanville, West Virginia resident Lee Rayburn and his teammates have been involved in amateur stock car racing for more than two decades, at first competing in the US Legend Cars races. Two years ago, the team, known as Sniper Motorsport, shifted gears and moved to larger NASCAR Limited Late Model...
Increased Temporal Scanner Hospital Use Increases Medicare Reimbursement
Temporal Artery Scanner Only Method Satisfying 100% of Patients in Overnight Hospital Stays Says Exergen Corporation A new national survey was recently conducted to explore methods of thermometry used in hospitals, patients’ thermometry preferences and a possible correlation between the way patients had their temperatures taken and satisfaction with their...