Archive for December, 2009

Medical Thermography

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

breast-ctiHistory of Thermography

 

Thermal imaging was first used for observing battlefield troop movements at night. When the technology was declassified in the mid-1950’s, Raymond Lawson, a Canadian surgeon and tumour metabolism researcher, thought perhaps this technology could be used to detect the increase in heat that cancerous breast tumours produce. (more…)