Patent ID: 11874173
Assignee: EXERGEN CORPORATION
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 15:
16. A method of detecting inflammation comprising:
providing a temperature detector comprising:
a radiation sensor which views a surface area of a body and provides a radiation sensor output;
an ambient temperature sensor;
electronics coupled to the radiation sensor and the ambient temperature sensor which compute a normalized surface temperature of the area normalized to a specified ambient temperature as a function of a sensed ambient temperature and the radiation sensor output; and
a display;
obtaining a first normalized surface temperature of a first surface area with the temperature detector;
obtaining a second normalized surface temperature of a second surface area with the temperature detector;
storing in memory the first and second normalized surface temperatures;
calculating a difference between the first normalized surface temperature and the second normalized temperature; and
displaying the calculated difference, the calculated difference being indicative of inflammation in at least one of the first surface area and the second surface area.