Welcome to Border Thermal Imaging

Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging (DITI) Clinics now in Country Victoria

I am pleased to introduce you to the concept and growing demand of Medical Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging.

Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging (DITI) is a totally non-invasive clinical imaging procedure for detecting and monitoring a number of diseases, and physical injuries by showing the thermal abnormalities present in the body.  It is used as an aid for diagnosis and prognosis, as well as therapy follow up and rehabilitation monitoring, within clinical fields that include rheumatology, neurology, physiotherapy, sports medicine, oncology, pediatrics, orthopedics, chiropractic, breast health and many others.

DITI is highly sensitive and can therefore be used clinically to detect disease in the vascular, muscular, neural and skeletal systems.

Thermography has been available in clinical practice since the 1960’s and successfully used by industry and the military. The medical version has evolved into a technologically advanced medical monitoring system. “Nothing else can see what this camera can see”.

A study in the Jan. 2003 issue of the American Journal of Radiology documented that thermography has 99% sensitivity in diagnosing breast cancer in women under age 55. In contrast, conventional mammography has a 70% sensitivity rate in detecting cancer in this age group.

Canadian researchers found that infrared imaging of breast cancers could detect minute temperature variations related to blood flow and demonstrate abnormal patterns associated with the progression of tumours.  Medical DITI has been used extensively in human medicine in the United States, Europe and Asia for the past 20 years and which is now becoming more widely used over the past 6 years here in Australia.  

Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging (DITI) used for adjunctive Breast Disease Screening Can Enhance Early Detection : DITI of the breast offers the opportunity of earlier detection of breast disease than has been possible with breast self examination, physician palpation, or mammography alone.  DITI's role in breast cancer and other breast disorders is one of early detection and monitoring of abnormal physiology and the establishment of risk factors for the development or existence of cancer. When used adjunctively with other laboratory and outcome assessment tools, the best possible evaluation of breast health is made.

Clinical uses for DITI include,

• defining the extent of a lesion of which a diagnosis has previously been made (for example, vascular disease);
• localizing an abnormal area not previously identified, so further diagnostic tests can be performed (as in Irritable Bowel Syndrome);
• detecting early lesions before they are clinically evident (as in breast cancer or other breast diseases);
• and monitoring the healing process before a patient returns to work or training (as in worker's compensation claims).

Medical DITI is filling the gap in clinical diagnosis-

• X-ray, Computed Tomography, Ultrasound and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), are tests of anatomy or structure.
• E.M.G. is a test of motor physiology.
• DITI is unique in its capability to show physiological or functional changes and metabolic processes. It has also proven to be a very useful complementary procedure to other diagnostic procedures.

DITI is:
Non-Invasive
Painless
No Radiation
No Body Contact
No Doctor Referrals