| Digital technology now makes Digital Infrared Thermal | | | | Computed Tomography, Ultrasound and Magnetic |
| Imaging available to all. There now is a completely | | | | Resonance Imaging (MRI), are tests of anatomy or |
| safe test that can aid in diagnosis, treatment and | | | | structure. DITI is unique in its capability to show |
| monitoring with absolutely no risk or radiation | | | | physiological or functional changes and metabolic |
| exposure. | | | | processes. It has also proven to be a very useful |
| DITI, or digital infrared thermal imaging, is a | | | | complementary procedure to other diagnostic |
| noninvasive diagnostic test that allows a health | | | | procedures. |
| practitioner to see and measure changes in skin | | | | Unlike most diagnostic modalities DITI is non invasive. |
| surface temperature. An infrared scanning camera | | | | It is a very sensitive and reliable means of graphically |
| translates infrared radiation emitted from the skin | | | | mapping and displaying skin surface temperature. |
| surface and records them on a color monitor. This | | | | With DITI you can diagnosis, evaluate, monitor and |
| visual image graphically maps the body temperature | | | | document a large number of injuries and conditions, |
| and is referred to as a thermogram. The spectrum of | | | | including soft tissue injuries and sensory/autonomic |
| colors indicates an increase or decrease in the | | | | nerve fiber dysfunction. Medical DITI can offer |
| amount of infrared radiation being emitted from the | | | | considerable financial savings by avoiding the need for |
| body surface. In healthy people, there is a | | | | more expensive investigation for many patients. |
| symmetrical skin pattern which is consistent and | | | | Medical DITI can graphically display the biased feeling |
| reproducible for any individual. | | | | of pain by accurately displaying the changes in skin |
| DITI is highly sensitive and can therefore be used | | | | surface temperature. Disease states commonly |
| clinically to detect disease in the vascular, muscular, | | | | associated with pain include Reflex Sympathetic |
| neural and skeletal systems. Medical DITI has been | | | | Dystrophy or RSD, Fibromyalgia and Rheumatoid |
| used extensively in human medicine in the United | | | | arthritis. |
| States, Europe and Asia for the past 20 years. Until | | | | Medical DITI can show a combined effect of the |
| now, bulky equipment has hindered its diagnostic and | | | | autonomic nervous system and the vascular system, |
| economic feasibility. Now, PC-based infrared | | | | down to capillary dysfunctions. The effects of these |
| technology designed specifically for clinical application | | | | changes reveal an asymmetry in temperature |
| has changed all this. | | | | distribution on the surface of the body. DITI is a |
| Clinical uses for DITI include, defining the extent of a | | | | monitor of thermal abnormalities present in a number |
| lesion of which a diagnosis has previously been made | | | | of diseases and physical injuries. It is used as an aid |
| (for example, vascular disease); localizing an abnormal | | | | for diagnosis and prognosis, as well as therapy follow |
| area not previously identified, so further diagnostic | | | | up and rehabilitation monitoring, within clinical fields |
| tests can be performed (as in Irritable Bowel | | | | that include rheumatology, neurology, physiotherapy, |
| Syndrome); detecting early lesions before they are | | | | sports medicine, oncology, pediatrics, orthopedics and |
| clinically evident (as in breast cancer or other breast | | | | many others. |
| diseases); and monitoring the healing process before | | | | Results obtained with medical DITI systems are |
| a patient returns to work or training (as in | | | | totally objective and show excellent correlation with |
| workman’s compensation claims). | | | | other diagnostic tests. |
| Medical DITI is filling the gap in clinical diagnosis; X-ray, | | | | |