WHAT IS THERMOGRAPHY?
Thermography is a type of medical imaging, using a special infrared camera, that detects temperature changes and heat patterns in the body. It is a highly sensitive study of the largest, most intelligent and most available organ of the body; the skin. The temperature patterns in a healthy and balanced body are nearly the same across the entire body. The Thermographic imaging system is an economical, easy to use tool for examining and monitoring patients quickly and accurately.
WHAT IS BREAST THERMOGRAPHY?
Breast Thermography is a painless, non-invasive exam that doesn’t use any radiation, and is relatively quick. It is a beneficial procedure that tracks temperature modifications in the breast. Thermography is an outstanding adjunct imaging procedure for women of any age. It is specifically helpful for females that tend to have denser breast tissue, where mammography could be less efficient.
Breast Thermography takes images of the breast from the base of the neck, below the arms and includes the entire chest area. Unlike Mammography, which takes images of the breast that can be photographed between the two compression plates. Thermography helps females with all size breasts, including very small breasts and is completely safe for breast implant patients because there is no compression or radiation.
NATURAL HEALTH THERMOGRAPHY
Natural Health Thermography offers one of the most innovative Breast Thermography imaging, as well as Full Body imaging, services in the state of Michigan. All of our staff are ACCT certified clinical thermographers. Our Thermography camera is Course 1, FDA cleared clinical tool with a 510(k)-clearance number K003332 which creates photos that record over 80,000 temperature levels in each image. We use Clinical Physicians, specifically trained in Thermography, to create our reports. These reports will advise patients when it is necessary to consult with your healthcare professional for additional assessment.
Call us at 231-750-1055 to schedule an appointment.
WHAT MAKES US UNIQUE?
We provide each of our patients with the following…
- Convenience, we travel because our camera is portable
- A safe and comfortable environment
- Friendly, courteous, certified and knowledgeable owner and staff
- Actual pictures, not a generic graph
- All images are interpreted and come with a written report by an M.D.
- Thermography is our only service
- Radiation free and non-invasive imaging
- Painless and compression free imaging
- Thermography works even if you have breast implants
- Service works on dense or fibrocystic breast tissue
- Our camera provides over 80,000 temperatures per image
- Providing health care for the last 20 plus years
- The area’s best Breast and Full Body Thermography imaging in West MI
Normally dense breast tissue prevents accurate mammogram results. Mammography screens for increased tissue density and it is difficult to discern the difference between normally dense tissue and the dense tissue that develops with breast cancer. Thermography images heat patterns. Mammograms screen for increased tissue density which does not occur until much later in the disease process. Breast size or dense tissue do not affect thermography results. Thermography converts the heat emitted from the body into color images. This means that increased areas of heat are visible on an image and are usually an indication for inflammation.
Thermography can image any area of the body but is most commonly used in breast imaging. Women are more familiar with x-rays or mammography for breast imaging. Mammograms compress each breast between two plates and x-ray photons are passed through the tissue to create an image. “X-ray photons carry enough energy to ionize atoms and disrupts molecular bonds. This makes it a type of ionizing radiation, and therefore harmful to living tissue.”