Posts Tagged ‘Thermography’
Cancer Battle Hots Up
Sunday, January 7th, 2007
Thermal imaging is being touted as a new way to identify cancer. But not everyone agrees
In 1971, former US president Richard Nixon launched a much-hyped ‘war on cancer’, confidently proclaiming that a cure for the disease would be discovered within five years. Thirty years on, we are still suffering from the scourge.
Cancer has become one of the most lethal diseases known to mankind, with one in four people expected to die from it.
But with more emphasis being placed on the early detection of cancer, there is now renewed interest in infra-red technology. Is it the hot new way to identify cancer, or just more quackology?
Earliest know indicator for future breast cancer development
Thursday, November 16th, 2006
With more emphasis being placed on early detection screenings, there is now renewed interest in the parallel development of complementary imaging techniques that can also exploit the precocious metabolic, immunological and vascular changes associated with early tumor growth.
One promising modality for aiding clinicians in differentiating malignant from benign breast lesions is Medical Infrared Imaging. This modality is non-invasive and detects physiologic tissue response, rather than evaluating anatomic features. As heat is released from the body, a portion is in the form of infrared radiation.
At the Irish Centre of Integrated Medicine (ICIM) a state-of-the-art infrared radiation detection system utilizes ultra-sensitive infrared cameras and sophisticated computers to detect, analyze, and produce high-resolution diagnostic images of these infrared emissions. The problems encountered with first generation infrared camera systems such as improper detector sensitivity (low-band), thermal drift, calibration. Analog interface, etc. have been solved for almost two decades.
Vilela Difference
Sunday, April 30th, 2006
Sharon Fidgeon was plagued with backache for decades and thought she was doomed to a life of pain. Then a new treatment changed everything, says Andrea Smith.
When glamorous social worker Sharon Fidgeon was 13, she received a playful kick in the backside during a pillow fight that was to have repercussions for the next 20 years. Having suffered with recurrent back pain, Sharon was also dogged with chronic tiredness, and she was feeling pretty miserable until a diagnostic technique known as medical thermography was able to pinpoint the exact cause of her health problems and set her on the road to recovery.
Now aged 34, and mother to pretty eight-year-old leah, Sharon recalls how the childhood prank was the first of three injuries to her back. “My coccyx [tailbone] was injured and I was in a lot of pain at times, with numbness down my legs,” she recalls. “It was when I went to college at the age of 18 that it really began to bother me, and my mother was at me to have the problem sorted out.” (more…)
Thermo
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
Medical thermography, a non-invasive tool that uses thermal imaging, has been around for decades and the Irish Centre of Integrated Medicine in Naas is currently the only centre in Ireland that provides this service.
It can be used to monitor a host of conditions, including respiratory dysfunctions such as asthma and bronchitis. It also aids the diagnosis of digestive, cardiovascular and circulatory disorders, and can even monitor breast health.
However, Felipe Reitz of the ICIM points out that medical thermography “is not a substitute for mammography, the standard breast tumour detection technology used in Ireland”, Echoing the view of the Action Breast Cancer experts.
Rather, Reitz says it should be used as a complementary procedure “to help people be preventative.” (more…)