WHAT IS THERMOGRAPHY?

Being able to see the very first beginnings of a possible disease process before it becomes a medical problem is essential to living a long and healthy life.

Thermography is an important imaging tool for prevention. Thermography helps guide us to the areas in your body that are asking for help; often times long before traditional tests or other imaging techniques can detect a possible problem.

Thermography uses a highly sensitive infrared camera to map the body’s temperature. It is FDA cleared, uses absolutely zero radiation, is non-invasive and provides a reliable means of graphically mapping and displaying the skin’s surface temperature. By detecting subtle variations in blood vessel activity, we can detect thermal heat patterns that could suggest a pre-disease state.

Thermography converts infrared radiation emitted from the skin surface into electrical impulses that are visualized in color. The spectrum of colors indicates an increase or decrease in the amount of infrared radiation being emitted from the body surface. Medical Thermography can graphically display and record the subjective feeling of pain by objectively displaying the changes in skin surface temperature that are produced by pain states.

Medical Thermography’s major clinical value is in its high sensitivity to pathology in the vascular, muscular, neural and skeletal systems and as such can contribute to diagnosis by the clinician.

Clinical uses for DITI include;

• To localize an abnormal area not previously identified, so further diagnostic tests can be performed;
• To define the extent of a lesion of which a diagnosis has previously been made;
• To detect early lesions before they are clinically evident;
• To monitor treatment and the healing process before the patient is returned to work.

​Thermography is not a replace a mammogram or any other diagnostic device or examination. Thermography is registered with the FDA as an ADJUNCT to mammography.