Thermography as a Diagnostic Tool

Thermal imaging creates pictures of surface temperature. It’s a technology that has been around for at least 100 years. A Hungarian physicist named Kálmán Tihanyi developed an infrared camera back in the 1920s for use as a night-vision device for military use. The use of thermal imaging in medicine began around the late 1950s. In human medicine, thermal imaging has been and is used in investigation of circulatory disorders, Raynaud’s syndrome, dysfunction of the sympathetic nervous system, pain investigation, locomotor injury and breast cancer screening. A large bibliography on human . . .

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