Patent ID: 11861834
Assignee: BIRED IMAGING, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 10:
11. A method for determining the presence of heat generating tissue in a body part, comprising:
obtaining multi-view images of a body part, wherein the multi-view images comprise infrared images depicting a temperature distribution at the surface of the body part;
obtaining a 3-D digital model representing the surface and internal tissue of the body part;
generating a 3-D phantom thermal model by assigning values to selected parameters in the 3-D digital model of the body part and the surroundings and solving heat transfer equations, wherein the 3-D phantom thermal model comprises phantom thermal images of the surface of the body part;
comparing the phantom thermal images of the surface of the body part with the infrared images depicting a temperature distribution at the surface of the body part;
identifying the values of the selected parameters generating the phantom thermal images matching the infrared images indicating a suspected malignancy; and
identifying values of additional selected parameters generating phantom thermal images matching the infrared images, wherein the additional selected parameters indicate a further suspected malignancy.