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The detection of early breast cancer was thermography's first medical use. In fact, between l974 and l976, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) required the use of thermography in their large-scale, breast cancer detection project. But as complete diagnostic criteria were undeveloped at the time the NIH dropped thermography from its program and shifted all attention to mammography. |
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Thermography measures the amount of body heat in targeted areas - such as the breast or the intestines - as delivered to the skin from a combination of cellular metabolism and the nervous system. The thermography device converts heat energy on the skin into electronic data signals displayed on a computer monitor. 112 different points on the body are scanned and placed into a single displayed image yielding a scan of 15 major organs and their functions. The thermography device does not send out rays to penetrate body tissue to produce an image. It simply registers skin-surface temperature from the capillary heat conduction through the skin. While x-rays give a structural view, thermography gives us a functional perspective based on physiology and stress response. By studying the skin temperature patterns from the patient's body, the diagnostician gains a direct index of the metabolic activity in the various parts of the body. Disturbances in the energy-conversion processes and reduced responses to the stress stimulus show up in the CRT thermographic scan as inflamed, degenerative or blocked. Subsequent thermographic scans can monitor and demonstrate the progress of treatments as the blocked areas become unblocked or the degenerative areas become normal. |
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The Procedure You will sit in a fairly cool, but not uncomfortable room for 15 minutes. The technician will then take the first measurements using the gentle touch of a temperature probe on particular points on the skin of the face and neck. Then, you will be asked to expose the upper body, from the waist up, which will induce a physiological response by the whole body to the "stress" of the cool room air. The technician then quickly takes the remainder of the measurements on your chest, breasts, abdomen, and back. You are then asked to sit as you are, exposed to the room air for an additional 8 minutes, making the total exposure time about 10 minutes. According to clinical research, it takes about 10 minutes for the body to stabilize and acclimate to the regulatory changes from the internal organs onto the skin. The measurements are then repeated and the test is concluded. An instant computerized readout of the regulatory effects before and after the cool stress is printed out which details how your internal organs and their neurological control systems reacted. This information can be extremely helpful in determining the efficacy of your future treatments and health potential. |