How does thermal imaging work?
Thermal imaging is a 15 minute, non-invasive test of physiology. Thermal imaging uses a highly sensitive, high-resolution digital thermal camera to take a picture of your body’s infrared heat and display these patterns in the form of a digital image. The cells of your body produce heat through their normal function. Diseased cells, like cancer, usually produce more heat in their earliest stages of development (before a tumor forms). Before most cancerous tumors grow, the cancer cells will: • stimulate new blood vessels to grow • re-open unused blood vessels • maintain those blood vessels already in use The cancer cells build a vast network of blood vessels in the area it will ultimately grow. A tumor needs more blood flow than normal cells to support its rapid growth. With more blood flow, there is more heat. Thermal imaging examines these “hot spots” which can be the earliest warning signs of cancerous activity. This activity has been shown to begin years before a tumor forms, and bef
