The methodics of medical thermography in the diagnostics of the human body musculoskeletal system

Abstract

Medical thermography is a powerful tool for the study of surface temperature of the human body. It is non-invasive, non-radiation, painless and non-contact imaging technique with numerous medical applications including musculoskeletal system, its disorders and injuries. Often it is useful to cross-reference the resulting thermograms with visual images of the body; either to see which part of the musculoskeletal system is affected by a certain disease or injury or to judge the efficacy of the treatment. Presented paper deals with application of the thermal imaging to measure lower extremities surface temperature distribution in 20 healthy individuals. The aim was to asses the proper technical way of the measurement.