著者

Toshiyo Tamura Ming Huang Tatsuo Togawa

出版者

Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering

雑誌

Advanced Biomedical Engineering (ISSN:21875219)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.7, pp.88-99, 2018 (Released:2018-04-12)

参考文献数

44

被引用文献数

12 49

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Wearable thermometers are popular devices for measuring body temperature during fever, as well as for monitoring basal temperature in women. They are easy to handle, inexpensive, accurate and provide continuous recordings. Most wearable thermometers are connected to a smart phone or tablet to display data. Many types of wearable thermometer are available, such as touch, patch and invisible (radiometric) types. In this review, we describe and discuss currently available wearable thermometers.