The Chiron�s front line scanning and screening technique involves thermal scans. So what are thermal scans? thermal scanis our easy to remember name for the all the following rather confusing titles that are commonly used but which all refer to the same process:

A thermal scanis a thermal image or scan of the heat being given off by your body. Unlike other screening technologies which work invasively to record underlying structures or mass within the body, a thermal scananalyses the heat that is given off by the body and allows for immediate display onto a computer monitor. The images obtained provide an indirect measurement of the metabolic rate of tissue being screened. Typical scans look like this and can be in colour or simple grayscale:

The point is that different diseases and abnormalities inside the body are often characterised by their own distinctive patterns or heat signatures. The trained thermographer (in our case always a qualified doctor) can read or interpret these heat patterns with great accuracy. The advantage of this is that thermal scans� have the unique capability of monitoring the temperature variations produced by the earliest changes in tissue physiology.

What is also true is that medical infrared scanning has been evolving over the past 25 years. But thanks to advances in computers and imaging technology, it has now come of age as a revolutionary scanning technique with levels of definition and accuracy that were previously unimaginable. Since even very minor abnormalities can affect the heat signatures, it is now possible to see incipient and very minor changes to tissue and physiology at a much earlier or less obvious stage. With some diseases and injuries there is now enough scientific evidence to show that these heat signatures can be analysed with great accuracy (referred to as sensitivity and specificity in medical parlance); typical examples are with pain and injury or breast cancer abnormalities.