Patent ID: 8923954

Claim:
A thermal imaging system, comprising: a data processing system; a geometrical scanning system constructed to communicate with said data processing system, said geometrical scanning system being adapted to scan at least a section of a surface of a subject under observation; and an infrared imaging system constructed to communicate with said data processing system, said infrared imaging system being adapted to image at least a portion of said section of said surface, wherein said data processing system is configured to receive data from said geometrical scanning system and to construct a surface map of said section of said surface of said subject under observation and to identify geometrical markers on said surface map based on said data from said geometrical scanning system, wherein said data processing system is configured to receive data from said infrared imaging system and to construct a thermal map of said portion of said section of said surface, to identify thermal markers on said thermal map based on said data from said infrared imaging system, and to register said thermal map to said surface map based on a correspondence between at least some of said geometrical and thermal markers, and wherein said data processor is configured to correct temperatures of said thermal map based on said surface map subsequent to said registering.