Breast Thermography
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Breast Thermography
Breast thermography uses advanced infrared imaging to detect temperature changes associated with breast abnormalities—without radiation or compression.
What Is Breast Thermography?
Breast thermography is a non-invasive imaging technique that uses high-resolution infrared cameras to map heat patterns and blood flow in breast tissue.
It helps identify abnormal thermal changes that may indicate underlying concerns.
Key Benefits
- No Radiation Exposure
- No Breast Compression
How Breast Thermography Works?
- Breast thermography employs digital infrared thermal imaging technology.
- An infrared scanning device, which does not touch the body, measures the skin surface temperature of the breasts.
- The device converts infrared heat that the skin naturally emits into electrical impulses projected on a monitor.
- As a result, breast thermography maps the body temperature.
- The spectrum of colors on the monitor indicates the amount of infrared heat emitted from the breasts’ surface.
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Are you under 50? Younger women rely on Breast Thermography screening
Younger women, ages 30 to 50, often have dense breast tissue. Dense breast tissue can make it difficult for a screening mammogram to detect breast cancer. In addition, many physicians do not recommend mammograms for women under 50. So, breast thermography can serve as an early detection and monitoring tool for young women with a genetic predisposition to the disease.
Role in Breast Health Assessment
Breast thermography is not a replacement for mammography, but a complementary imaging tool that can provide additional functional information to support early detection and ongoing breast health monitoring.
Is Thermography as good as mammography?
- Breast thermography is an excellent screening tool that women can add to their annual mammograms. Thermography digital imaging technology, has two distinct advantages over other breast cancer screening tools:
- 1. It is non-invasive
- 2. It does not emit any harmful radiation
- The procedure lasts about fifteen minutes, and no equipment touches the breast.
- Digital infrared thermal imaging effectively detects potential problem areas in breast tissue that may indicate malignancy in the early stages because inflammation is visible prior to disease as the body begins gearing up to fight unwanted cells.
- Breast thermography is an FDA-approved procedure that can help visualize and quantify changes in skin temperature.
- If breast thermography detects any suspicious findings, women can alert their physician so that they can pursue further testing and treatment.
- Breast thermography does not take the place of mammography when that test is deemed medically appropriate.
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FAQs
1. Is breast thermography safe?
Yes, breast thermography is safe. It is a non-invasive, radiation-free test with no compression or side effects.
2. Is the Koning Breast CT safe?
Yes, the Koning Breast CT is safe. The radiation dose used during a KBCT scan is within the range of standard diagnosticmammograms.
This ensures that patients receive high-quality imaging while minimising exposure to radiation.
3. What are the advantages of Koning Breast CT for patients?
Patients benefit greatly from the Koning Breast CT as it eliminates the need for breast compression, resulting in a pain-free and more comfortable experience. The scan is also quick, taking only 7 seconds, and provides a full 3D image with no need for additional views. This ensures that potential abnormalities are visualised with greater accuracy, allowing for a confident diagnosis. Moreover, KBCT is effective for imaging all breast types, including small, large, dense breasts, and even those with implants.
4. How does Koning Breast CT improve diagnostic accuracy?
Koning Breast CT offers superior diagnostic accuracy by providing high-quality isotropic 3D images that enable the visualisation of potential abnormalities without tissue overlap, which is a common limitation in traditional mammography. This is particularly beneficial for patients with dense breast tissue, where small lesions as tiny as 2mm can be detected with greater precision.
5. Are there any economic benefits to using Koning Breast CT in clinical settings?
Yes, Koning Breast CT provides compelling economic benefits for healthcare providers. It allows for higher throughput with quicker scan times, leading to increased patient volume and improved efficiency. The KBCT system also replaces the need for multiple devices to perform biopsies, resulting in cost savings on capital equipment. Additionally, its small footprint requires minimal facility modification, making it a cost-effective solution for clinics and hospitals.
6. What limitations of Full-Field Digital Mammography (FFDM) and Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) does Koning Breast CT address?
Koning Breast CT addresses several limitations of FFDM and DBT, such as the need for breast compression, which can exclude the chest wall and create compression artifacts. It also eliminates the ambiguity of distribution and measurement inaccuracies, providing a clear spatial representation of the region of interest (ROI). KBCT overcomes the difficulty in defining the extent of disease by offering true 3D volumetric imaging, ensuring a more comprehensive and accurate diagnosis
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