Title :
Study of trilogy-imaging characteristics on TTM and its relationship with malignancies
Author :
Zhou, Yulin ; Chen, Xi ; Yu, Wen ; Yu, Jidong ; Wang, Hongling ; Zhang, Naihe ; Bi, Hongxin
Author_Institution :
Shanghai Ruimei Health-Check Center, China
Abstract :
To study trilogy-imaging characteristics of thermal texture mapping (TTM) and its relationship with malignancies. TTM scanning was performed on 32 normal volunteers and 90 cancer patients who were included in this study. And the trilogy-imaging characteristics were observed. The percent of the characteristics of trilogy imaging on TTM is higher in cancer patients than normal control, P = 0.0000. In normal volunteers who have trilogy characteristics, the percent of the people with cancer family history was obviously higher than those without, P = 0.0003. Trilogy-imaging characteristics on TTM are correlated with the patients with malignancy or the normal people with cancer family history. Neuroendocrine-immunology thesis might be the underlying mechanism of that phenomenon.
Keywords :
biomedical optical imaging; cancer; infrared imaging; tumours; cancer patients; malignancies; neuroendocrine-immunology; thermal texture mapping; trilogy-imaging characteristics; Biochemistry; Cancer; Glands; History; Immune system; Neurotransmitters; Pancreas; Performance evaluation; Testing; Time to market; TTM; Thermal Texture Mapping; Trilogy-imaging; immune theory; malignancies detection; thermal imaging; thermography;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2004. IEMBS '04. 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8439-3
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2004.1404473