Veterinary DITI
Providing a simple test of physiology that helps detect inflammatory and neurological conditions with both soft tissue and bone.
DITI (Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging) is a non-invasive diagnostic test of physiology that has evolved over the last 20 years. DITI has been recognised as a useful tool in the early identification of musculoskeletal and neurological injuries, especially non-specific (and difficult to diagnose) lameness. The ability to detect inflammatory and neurological processes at an early stage can be critical to evaluation and recovery. DITI is unique in its ability to show physiological abnormalities and can graphically display and record subjective feeling of pain by objectively displaying changes in the skins surface temperature that accompanies a state of pain.
Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging (DITI) is also more commonly known as thermography. Our systems are used in both Human and Veterinary Medicine and are a 100% safe, completely non-invasive test of the body’s physiology. In human medicine it is used globally for breast screening and evaluating pain and disease.
Medical DITI is filling the gap in clinical diagnosis...
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DITI is unique in its capability to show physiological (functional) abnormalities and can graphically display and record the patients 'subjective' feeling of pain and signs of disease. This happens by displaying the changes in skin surface temperature that produce an inflammatory or neurological process.
How Thermography Works?
Clinical DITI's major clinical value is in the early identification of inflammatory and / or neurological processes involving the soft tissue and the bone.
Clinical DITI is a non-invasive diagnostic technique that allows the examiner to visualize and quantify changes in skin surface temperature. An infrared scanning device is used to convert infrared radiation emitted from the skin surface into electrical impulses that are visualized in colour on a monitor. This visual image graphically maps the body temperature and is referred to as a thermogram.
The spectrum of colours indicate an increase or decrease in the amount of infrared radiation being emitted from the body surface. Since there is a high degree of thermal symmetry in the normal body, subtle abnormal temperature changes can be easily identified. DITI can provide information about a patient’s response to treatment as well as the effects of injury, disease or prescribed treatment.
Skin blood flow is under the control of the sympathetic nervous system. In normal subjects (asymptomatic) there is a symmetrical dermal pattern which is consistent and reproducible for any individual. This is recorded in precise detail to a temperature sensitivity of 0.01°C by the Meditherm Vet2000™ DITI system.
