Infrared Thermal Imaging in Medical Diagnosis

The temperature distribution of normal human body has certain stability and characteristics. When the disease or functional change occurs somewhere in the human body, the blood flow will change accordingly, resulting in the change of local calorific value of human body, and abnormal high or low temperature appears in the thermal image. Therefore, doctors can use infrared thermal imaging technology to better judge the location, nature and degree of human lesions, and provide a new reference perspective for clinical diagnosis.

At present, the infrared medical detection equipment integrated with infrared detectors from Global Sensor Technology has been successfully applied in the fields of early screening of tumor, diagnosis of peripheral vascular disease, diagnosis of peripheral skin tissue damage and pain disease, auxiliary diagnosis and curative effect evaluation of traditional Chinese medicine, evaluation of human health status, etc.

Early screening of tumor

Tumor can cause the local human body temperature to rise. Infrared medical diagnosis technology mainly judge the condition by observing the color and temperature abnormal area of human body thermal image and the change of blood vessel flow. The results are more obvious and more intuitive. For example, the vermalia breast cancer center in the United States, through the detection of 100 women with stage I and II breast cancer, found that due to the intervention of infrared thermal imaging detection technology, the detection accuracy rate was increased from 84% of the original X-ray detection to 95%.

Diagnosis and treatment of peripheral vascular diseases

When there are neurovascular lesions, blood circulation is impaired, and the color and temperature of the lesion area in the thermal image are abnormal, such as vasculitis obliterans, arterial embolism, aneurysms, etc., the lesion location can be clearly displayed by the thermal imager for timely interventional treatment.

Diagnosis of peripheral skin tissue injury and pain diseases

Infrared medical diagnosis can also be used in the diagnosis of skin and tissue damage. For example, infrared thermal imager can know the heat distribution of skin and subcutaneous tissue through body surface temperature data and thermal image, and preliminarily determine the damaged area of skin and tissue and the degree of vascular damage of patients with frostbite or burn, so as to intuitively grasp the patient's situation.

Traditional Chinese medicine health care and conditioning

Traditional Chinese medicine stresses "Yin and Yang, exterior and interior, deficiency and excess, cold and heat", but these professional terms are obscure and not intuitive enough. However, through infrared thermography, we can clearly "understand" traditional Chinese medicine, with body cold and heat visible at a glance and body temperature clear at a glance. For example, in the thermal image, if the temperature around the navel is low, it indicates that the spleen is deficient, and there may be problems of phlegm dampness, poor metabolism and poor excretion; if the temperature distribution on the body surface is uneven like snowflakes, forming a spotted thermal structure, it indicates that there is damp heat toxin in the body, which may be allergic constitution. Finally, combined with the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the curative effect can be achieved only by symptomatic medication.

Health assessment

Infrared medical examination can be used as the priority medical examination means for health examination, sub-health care and early screening of diseases. Combined with the use of modern Chinese and Western medicine theory and clinical experience, the infrared medical examination can comprehensively evaluate the health status of all systems and the whole body, so as to formulate corresponding medical and health care plans.

Compared with traditional detection methods (such as X-ray, B-ultrasound, CT, endoscope, etc.), infrared medical diagnosis equipment has the advantages of no radiation damage, no medical device invasion, no pain and no damage, simple operation and direct observation. We fully believe that infrared medical detection technology will receive more attention in the future.

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