Computerized thermal imaging (CTI) is a new, non-invasive imaging method that is being developed using the principles of traditional thermography but with the addition of digital image reconstruction. Computerized thermal imaging (CTI) is a heat sensing and processing system that uses a thermal sensitive camera to capture a digital image based on heat radiating from the body. A computer-assisted interpretation of the digital image helps to determine whether a local abnormality in breast tissue temperature is present, which may indicate the presence of disease. The main component of the CTI technology is the highly sensitive, high-speed infrared camera. The camera is designed to detect infrared heat given off by the body. After the radiologist has acquired images of the breast tissue, the CTI system uses sophisticated image analysis algorithms and a computer to reconstruct the images to show individual heat patterns. These images differentiate between normal and abnormal heat patterns. The CTI examination consists of the patient being positioned on a special examination bed with the breast suspended in an opening in the top of the bed. The thermal camera is located inside of the bed, focused at the examination area. The physician will use the thermal camera to take a series of images of the breast. The procedure is then repeated with the patient’s other breast. As with traditional thermography, no radiation or breast compression is used during CTI.

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