Breast thermography

Head, J. F., Wang, F., and Elliott R. L., 1993, Breast Thermography Is a Noninvasive Prognostic Procedure That Predicts Tumor Growth Rate in Breast Cancer Patients, Ann. New York Acad. Sci., 698 153-158. 

A H Barrett, P C Myers, N L Sadowsky, Microwave thermography of normal and cancerous breast tissue . Conference on thermal characteristics of tumors applications in detection and treatment. New York, March, 979. Ann NY Acad Sci, 1980. 

Lapayowker, M. S., and Revesz, G., 1980, Thermography and Ultrasound in Detection and Diagnosis of Breast Cancer, Cancer, 46(4 Suppl) 933-938. 

Biomedical thermography [222] is used extensively as a thermal mapping technique to indicate a wide range of subcutaneous medical disorders. The first use of chiral nematics to indicate skin temperature was over 30 years ago [223]. Such devices are normally constrained to indicate temperature in the 30-33°C temperature range, over which the whole color play can be exhibited. Such films have been used to indicate breast cancer [224], for placental location [225], to identify vascular disorders [226], and for skin grafting [227]. The use of chiral nematics in such areas presents an inexpensive rapid screening technique which is only indicative, since local patient and environment conditions, e.g., room and patient temperatures and internal film pressure, may lead to some false readings. This is discussed in more detail in [97]. 

Thermography as a Diagnostic Aid in the Early Detection of Breast Cancer... 

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