Comparison of Medical Thermal Infrared Imager and Other Imaging Diagnostic Instruments

There is more to the world than can be seen with the naked eye. The human eye can only capture a specific range of light and has a limited ability to capture certain high-speed movements or invisible forces. From body heat to invisible gases, human vision has limitations that can be addressed with infrared and thermal imaging techniques.

You can learn more about the differences between thermal imaging cameras and other imaging diagnostics below. In addition to reading more about the fundamental principles of the field, you'll learn more about some of the exciting and common applications of thermal imaging cameras in the world today.

Chronic bronchitis early X-ray examination can not be abnormal. When the disease recurs early, it causes bronchial wall thickening, bronchiolar or alveolar interstitial inflammatory cell infiltration, or fibrosis. The lung markings of both lungs were thickened and chaotic, showing reticular, striped, or patchy shadows, and the lower lung fields were more obvious.

Thermal imaging cameras can spot problems early. It can be seen that the projections along the trachea and bronchi are distributed along the chest skin along a strip, showing a reticular or plaque-like temperature increase, and with the deterioration of the disease, the temperature of the hot zone will continue to increase, accompanied by reactions Expansion of the hot zone. In remission, thermal imaging can also reflect the process of lung temperature reduction, which has its advantages in judging the curative effect during the treatment process. Patients can avoid radiation damage caused by repeated imaging.

CT can easily find the location of brain space-occupying lesions with high specificity. But for dizziness, headache, autonomic disorder, lack of sleep, or cerebral vascular congestion caused by insufficient cerebral blood supply, CT is powerless, and other examinations cannot find a reasonable explanation.

Thermal imaging cameras can not only diagnose space-occupying lesions in the brain but also reflect insufficient blood supply to the brain caused by work fatigue and neuromodulation disorders. Therefore, higher requirements are placed on human health.

Thermal imaging also has its own unique approach to the diagnosis of thromboembolic disease. The images showed distinct cooling areas distal to the embolization site, which was not possible with other imaging.

In the history of clinical application, B-ultrasound has been widely recognized as a routine inspection item.

As a rising star of thermal imaging equipment, with the deepening of clinical research and the advancement of clinical applications, thermal imaging cameras will provide new means and basis for disease diagnosis, especially for the diagnosis of some intractable diseases.

1) For example, B-ultrasound can find breast lumps, but it cannot directly determine whether immediate surgery is needed. In addition, the blood supply of the blood vessels around the breast can be observed through the thermal image, and the probability of the tumor becoming cancerous can be judged, which can help guide the patient on whether or not surgery is needed.

2) In terms of function, such as the diagnosis of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, it also has its advantages compared with B-ultrasound.

Color Doppler ultrasound is also a type of functional imaging. When the color Doppler ultrasound does not find any problem with blood supply to the heart, the thermal image can judge the blood supply of the patient's heart through the slight temperature change in the left and right chest regions, and guide the patient to take medicine.

Clinical studies have shown that thermal imaging can detect tumors 6-12 months earlier than CT, X-ray, and MR.

Generally speaking, thermal imaging cameras belong to functional imaging; X-rays, CTs, and B-ultrasounds belong to anatomical images, each with their own advantages and division of labor in clinical applications. If the two can be combined organically, a new chapter in medical imaging diagnosis will be opened in the near future.

The above briefly describes the differences between medical thermal infrared imagers and other imaging diagnostic instruments. If you want to buy an infrared thermal imager, please contact us.

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