{"doi":"10.2527/ssasas2015-036","title":"036 Development of an equine non-contact thermography device: Evaluation of thermal expression on multiple sites of the horse as an indicator of body temperature","abstract":null,"journal":"Journal of Animal Science","year":2016,"id":673065,"datarank":0.16479184330021646,"base_score":1.0986122886681096,"endowment":1.0986122886681096,"self_citation_contribution":0.16479184330021646,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.16479184330021646,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":2,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1758559,"name":"J. 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New technologies such as infrared thermal imaging cameras are being tested as possible alternatives. The objectives of this research were to compare a prototype non-contact thermography device (NCT) to a traditional FLIR® thermal imager (FLIR Systems Inc., Wilsonville, OR) and to determine the relationship between rectal temperatures and thermographic body measurements on the horse. To accomplish this, 100 measurements were taken on 12 sedentary horses (5-15 yr; 357 to 540 kg) over a 9-day period. Measurements were collected at a distance of 1 m using the FLIR® and NCT at the following locations of the head and body: ocular globe of the eye, forehead, bridge of the nose, muzzle, lower lip, throat latch, behind the ear, chest, front face of the knee, cannon bone, girth, flank, hock, and tail head. Rectal temperatures were obtained to serve as standardized body temperatures. Ambient temperature and relative humidity were also recorded to account for environmental effects. Data were analyzed using the PROC CORR and PROC REG procedures of SAS. Strong correlations were found between the NCT:FLIR® at the forehead, chest, knee, cannon, girth, flank, hock, and tail head, with all values being greater than r = 0.55. The most consistent correlations across all three methods were found at the girth and flank. The girth had relationships of r = 0.58 (P < 0.01) for NCT:FLIR®, r = 0.34 (P < 0.01) for NCT:Rectal, and r = 0.35 (P < 0.01) for FLIR®:Rectal. At the flank, the relationships were r = 0.58 (P < 0.01) for NCT:FLIR®, r = 0.32 (P < 0.01) for NCT:Rectal, and r=0.40 (P < 0.01) for FLIR®:Rectal. Data were also analyzed through a stepwise regression to determine if a combination of sites would produce a suitable relationship to rectal temperature; however, all R-squared values were found to be weak. The greatest coefficients for the devices were calculated when all 14 sites were combined producing r2 = 0.24 for the NCT and r2 = 0.30 for the FLIR®. These data indicate that the non-contact thermography devices were functioning similarly to one another at certain sites of the horse, but further research needed to determine their utility in a production setting.","is_dataset_classified":null,"base_score":1.0986122886681096,"endowment":1.0986122886681096,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"views":0,"has_version_chain":false,"is_dataset":false,"is_oa":false,"pmid":"19162232","pmcid":null,"openalex_id":"https://openalex.org/W2325380283","authors":[],"funders":[],"total_grants":0,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"citation_trend":[{"year":2021,"count":1},{"year":2023,"count":1}],"oa_status":"closed","license":null,"oa_locations":[{"url":"http://academic.oup.com/jas/article-pdf/94/suppl_1/18/23316998/18.pdf","host_type":"publisher"},{"url":"https://doi.org/10.2527/ssasas2015-036","host_type":"journal"}],"fields_of_study":["Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock","Veterinary Equine Medical Research","Meat and Animal Product Quality"],"mesh_terms":[],"keywords":["Wet-bulb globe temperature","Thermography","Rectal temperature","Snout","Forehead","Horse","Medicine","Hock","Nuclear medicine","Girth (graph theory)","Flank","Biomedical engineering","Surgery","Anatomy","Animal science","Heat stress","Infrared","Mathematics","Physics","Biology","Anesthesia"],"sdg_mappings":[],"linked_datasets":[],"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"database_accessions":[],"source":"live","citation_network_status":"fetched"},"created_at":"2026-08-16T12:15:37.216282Z","pmid":null,"pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}