Medical thermography application in neuro-vascular deseases diagnostics

Abstract

The measurement of the surface temperatures by infrared thermography is not frequently used in medicine despite of its safety, painlessness and invasiveness, good reproducibility and low running costs. Promising results have been achieved in nerve entrapment syndromes or neuropathies, although thermography has never represented as a real alternative to the electromyography. Here an attempt is described to improve the diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome by thermography using a computer-based system with special software to analyse obtained thermograms.