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

Claim 21:
22. 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 configured to display the computed normalized surface temperature;
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;
calculating a difference between the first normalized surface temperature and the second normalized temperature; and
detecting inflammation at one of the first and second surface areas based on the displayed computed normalized surface temperatures at the one of the surface areas being greater than the other of the displayed computed normalized surface temperatures.