Passive Acoustic Thermometry of the Chest of a Person with COVID-19

A A Anosov; A V Erofeev; M I Shcherbakov; A D Mansfeld

doi:10.1134/S1063771022020014

Passive Acoustic Thermometry of the Chest of a Person with COVID-19

Acoust Phys. 2022;68(3):289-293. doi: 10.1134/S1063771022020014. Epub 2022 Jun 23.

Authors

A A Anosov^{1

2}, A V Erofeev^{1

2}, M I Shcherbakov², A D Mansfeld³

Affiliations

¹ Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Ministry of Health of Russia (Sechenov University), 119435 Moscow, Russia.
² Kotelnikov Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 125009 Moscow, Russia.
³ Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

Abstract

Passive acoustic thermometry (PAT) was used to study the dynamics of changes in the chest temperature of a person with COVID-19 over the course of about two and a half weeks after quarantine. PAT, which can measure deep body temperature, showed that the integral temperature of tissues surrounding the lungs increased from 32.2 ± 0.07 to 33.0 ± 0.03°C about 10 days after the end of quarantine. This may indicate increased blood supply to the lungs, i.e., an indication of recovery. Infrared thermometry used to monitor recovery yielded no results.

Keywords: COVID-19; IR thermometry; acoustobrightness temperature; passive acoustic thermometry; thermal acoustic radiation.

© Pleiades Publishing, Ltd. 2022, ISSN 1063-7710, Acoustical Physics, 2022, Vol. 68, No. 3, pp. 289–293. © Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2022.Russian Text © The Author(s), 2022, published in Akusticheskii Zhurnal, 2022, Vol. 68, No. 3, pp. 330–335.