Medical Thermography

Thermal imaging (medical thermography) reads the infrared heat radiating from the surface of the body and generates highly detailed digital pictures. These images show patterns of heat and vascularity in the tissue itself that may reveal the earliest indications of disease while still in the formative stages. Basically alerting us to a problem potentially developing.

It can detect the presence of heat from inflammation and infection, pointing to the source of pain. Effective in detecting soft tissue trauma or damage.

Not only is seeing heat important, but seeing vascularity. All cells need to be fed. So when a new cell mass develops, the body brings new blood vessels to it to supply it nutrition. This is called angiogenesis. A thermogram taken with a high resolution infrared camera in greyscale can detect unusual vascularity that may indicate a problem developing.