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Application of Infrared Thermal Imaging Camera in Frontier Research of Tumor Photothermal Therapy

time2022/02/08

You can read this article in detail to understand the range of infrared thermal imaging cameras in clinical applications, especially for tumor photothermal therapy.
the range of infrared thermal imaging cameras in clinical applications, especially for tumor photothermal therapy

The human body is a biological heating body, and the dimensions of each part are not equal. The normal temperature distribution of the human body has certain stability and symmetry. If there is a temperature change somewhere in the human body, it indicates that there is a disease there. The reason is that the temperature distribution pattern in the human body is caused by changes in blood flow and metabolism in the disease, which may be an increase in temperature or a decrease in temperature.

The infrared thermal imager will display the change of the temperature distribution of the human body, the location of the change, and its degree through the distribution of the human body temperature. After observing and analyzing the infrared thermal image and quantitatively measured temperature difference, the doctor can diagnose the location, nature, and degree of the patient's disease by combining anatomy, pathology, and clinical experience.

With the development of infrared thermal imaging technology, especially the development of uncooled focal plane infrared arrays, medical infrared thermal imaging camera technology has become another new breakthrough after modern mainstream medical imaging technologies such as CT, magnetic resonance, and B-ultrasound. It has opened up a new field of medical imaging based on functional science. It has a wide range of clinical applications, not only for early detection, but also for follow-up observation, disease diagnosis, efficacy evaluation, and medical research.

Tumor photothermal therapy

Photothermal therapy is to uses materials with high photothermal conversion efficiency, inject them into the human body, use targeted recognition technology to gather near tumor tissue, and irradiate external light sources (usually near-infrared light).

Photothermal therapy is the frontier and hotspot of current tumor treatment, and the core is the research and development of nanomaterials with super photothermal conversion efficiency. Among noble metal nanomaterials, such as gold nanoparticles, they are ideal photothermal conversion materials due to their strong surface plasmon resonance absorption effect on light.

Temperature monitoring is the most important research evaluation tool

The efficacy of photothermal therapy is related to the cumulative number of nanoparticles at the tumor site, tumor location, illumination parameters, and illumination patterns, and therefore, the temperature is one of the most important physical assessments.

The traditional contact temperature measurement method will block the laser energy, and it may destroy the properties of the reagent when it penetrates into the reagent solution; while the ordinary infrared thermometer can only detect the average temperature, and cannot continuously monitor the real-time temperature change of the disease during the tumor treatment process. Therefore, the data of the above two temperature measurement methods are not intuitive enough, which brings difficulties to the analysis and evaluation of experimental research.

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