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Thermographic Techniques with Liquid Crystals in Medicine

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Recent Advances in Medical Thermology

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The term liquid crystals consists of two parts which at first sight might appear to be contradictory; crystals consist of fixed elements, atoms and molecules which are fixed in a space lattice whereas elements of fluids are not bound in the same way. However, the spatial distribution of elements is of similar dimensions for both liquids and crystals. On heating, crystals change from the crystalline solid phase into the liquid phase and on cooling from the liquid phase into the crystalline solid phase.

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Flesch, U. (1984). Thermographic Techniques with Liquid Crystals in Medicine. In: Ring, E.F.J., Phillips, B. (eds) Recent Advances in Medical Thermology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7697-2_37

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