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CRT 2000® Computerized Regulation Thermographic System
Computerized Regulation Thermography is a non-invasive diagnostic imaging
procedure used to visualize, detect and record heat patterns in the
skin.
Thermography detects functional changes in skin temperature relating
to disease or injury. These changes are relevant to healthcare practice
whenever the treating professional requires physiological imaging test
for diagnosis or case management. The scan provides the practitioner
with the temperatures and thermal patterns recorded by the CRT 2000,
which are important in the development of a diagnostic impression.
Thermography may be regarded as one piece of information that must be
integrated with other available information in the clinician’s decision
making process.
How Thermography Works
There are many different types of thermography:
- Liquid Crystal Thermography
- Electronic Infrared Telethermography
- Thermal Imaging
- Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging
- Contact Thermography
The CRT 2000® Thermographic System uses contact thermography to take precise measurements of skin temperature. Unlike the electronic infrared telethermography which measures radiated heat from the body, contact thermography quantifies the cutivisceral reflex through precise measurements of the skin temperature. Over 100 defined measurement points are taken with a highly sensitive medical sensor and evaluated by a computer. Over twenty five years of standardized results are used to evaluate the regulation profile which is unique to each individual. This profile is then displayed numerically, graphically and descriptively so both the doctor and patient can readily understand it.
Thermography is an imaging technology which provides information on the normal and abnormal functions of the sensory and sympathetic nervous systems, vascular dysfunction, myofascial trauma and local inflammatory process. It contributes to diagnosis and case management by aiding in the determination of the site and degree of lesion, the type of functional disorder as well as the prognosis for treatment.
Physiological Basis
Blood flow allows core temperatures to come to the surface and will
change the temperature of the skin territorially. Each area of the body
has a particular cutaneous-cordal connection by the sympathetic nervous
system. The alteration of the thermal content of a territory occurs
based on alterations of this nervous control. Only the dermal blood
flow changes explain the heat seen on the surface of the body.
It has been show that the surface temperature of the human body is symmetrical. It is a reflection of blood flow in the dermal microcirculation and the control of this microcirculation is autonomic, and specifically, sympathetic. The major basis of clinical thermography is the correlation of temperature recordings with various conditions from disease and injury as it relates to the autonomic function.