DITI Saves Lives… What is Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging?

Digital infrared thermal imaging or medical thermography is a noninvasive adjunctive diagnostic technique that allows the examiner to visualize and quantify changes in skin surface temperature.

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An infrared scanning device is used to convert infrared radiation emitted from the skin surface into electrical impulses that are visualized in color on a monitor. This visual image graphically maps the body temperature and is referred to as a thermogram. The spectrum of colors indicate an increase or decrease in the amount of infrared radiation being emitted from the body surface.

Since there is a high degree of thermal symmetry in the normal body, subtle abnormal temperature asymmetries can be easily identified.