Evaluation of an infrared thermography camera for measuring body temperature in dairy calves

Graphical Abstract Summary: The objective of this study was to validate an infrared thermography (IRT) camera for measuring calf body temperature. Researchers followed a total of 318 dairy calves daily for 14 consecutive days taking ocular temperatures with IRT and rectal temperatures using a digital thermometer. With reference to the rectal thermometer, the IRT used was neither accurate nor precise, and was biased for estimating body temperature in the calves. We suggest that this IRT system cannot serve as a proxy for rectal temperature.

• Publication year

  2022

• Venue

  JDS Communications

• Publication date

  2022-07-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3168/jdsc.2022-0227PMID 36340910PMCID 9623779
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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