ve infrared cameras and computers to detect, analyze and produce high-resolution diagnostic images from the emissions of the human body. Early problems with poor detector sensitivity, thermal drift, calibration, and analog interfaces, etc. have been resolved now for over 20 years.
Diagnostic thermography needs to be conducted in a controlled environment because of human physiology (Amalu, 2001). Changes from an uncontrolled environment, clothing, etc. could produce thermal artifacts. The subject must avoid exposure to the sun, stimulation or treatment of the breasts, and cosmetics and lotions before the examination, and must spend 15 minutes of nude acclimation in a fluorescent lit, draft and sunlight free, temperature and humidity controlled room which is maintained between 18 and 22 degrees C, and kept to within 1 degree C of change during the procedure. This is necessary to produce a physiologically neutral image free from artifact.
Infrared thermography uses an infrared camera
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