Infrared Imaging & Breast Thermography

What is it?
Infrared Imaging, when used properly, is a test that can detect thermo-biological, chemical, and physiological changes in the body by identifying unique heat signatures and thermal anomalies.
                Infrared Imaging utilizes a highly sensitive infrared camera that can detect abnormal temperature changes physiologically. The thermal images captured provide important clinical information for proper patient care, evaluation and monitoring.
                The thermal readings detected by an IR imaging system can detect a series of physiological changes which is a crucial component in the advanced development of  cancer.
                Other physiological occurrences detected through thermal fluctuations include complex soft tissue injury, including sports injuries. Thermography can also detect fluctuations associated with diabetes, peripheral vascular disease, osteo-arthritis, neo-natal activity, dental infection, intra-operative surgical fluctuations, breast implant rupture, and melanoma. Many other applications are currently undergoing study.
                BREAST THERMOGRAPHY  is a test that can detect thermobiological, chemical, and physiological changes in the body by identifying unique heat signitures and thermal anomalies.  Simply put, thermography, or “digital thermal imaging”, uses an “ultra-sensitive heat camera to pick up areas of the breast that are very slightly hotter than the surrounding skin,  apparently a tell-tale sign of abnormal tissue growth”.  [Robert Elliot, MD]

Breast Thermography

• is 100% safe and FDA approved
• is completely painless
• can detect changes in physiology
• doesn’t use radiation or radioactive dyes
• doesn’t use compression or radio waves

Using infrared imaging to detect breast pathology is based on the now well-recognized principle that both metabolic and vascular activity in the tissue surrounding a new and developing breast cancer is usually higher than in normal breast tissue. Early breast cancer growth is dependent on increasing blood circulation by creating new blood vessels (angiogenesis). This process results in regional variations that can often be detected by infrared imaging. Computerized digital ultrasensitive infrared cameras display this process onto a high-resolution monitor. The current status of modern infrared imaging is that of a first line supplement to both clinical exam and mammography.