Dr. Lauren Swerdloff
Family Medicine Physician
The process safely takes 3000 individual temperature measurements and compares them to the temperature of the air in 3 seconds then immediately sends the information to a computer. The computer generates a colorful picture that can reveal the very earliest signs of disease and dysfunction. It is so safe and noninvasive, that it is FDA Approved safe for use on babies and pregnant Moms.
One Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging (DITI) Scan picture tells your body’s story…Where you have pain and what is causing your pain. Two DITI Scan pictures 3 months that do not change result in a baseline of your body’s thermal fingerprint, ideal for preventive care.
Serial DITI Scan pictures of any region follow your body’s progress through any type of treatment, conventional or alternative. Another benefit is that because tumor cells need blood to supply them with nutrients so they can grow, one of the first things these cells do is send out chemicals that tell the body to grow blood vessels to them so the cancer cells can get nutrients and grow rapidly.
Growing blood vessels to a tumor cell is called angiogenesis and DITI Scan pictures show this process way before calcifications will develop on a mammogram. While DITI is not routinely used to diagnose cancer, DITI Scans can reveal the earliest possible signs that something could be going wrong, often early enough to make the necessary changes to prevent the disease from progressing.
DITI Scans are different from traditional screening technology. X-rays, MRI, CT, and Ultrasound can only detect solid structures like larger blood vessels, bones, organs, and possibly existing tumors.
Alternatively, DITI Scans can detect the infrared heat emitting from the body, revealing the first stages of inflammation, nerve damage, and telltale vascular patterns like those that feed a tiny tumor to make it grow before it is large enough to see on Mammography. DITI is a physiological test. Which means it can see how your body is functioning like a PET scan does only without the radioactive tracer that is injected during pet scanning.
Today, doctors that use DITI Scans have the capability to see function and correlate it with structure. There are also full body scans for men, women, children, and their pets that want to know if their body will reveal early signs of future problems, without the radiation exposure of 150-200 X-rays typically received with traditional full-body CT scans.