The C-3000 is a paraspinal thermographic infrared scanning device. This nerve interference will result in thermal asymetries in skin temperature paraspinally, and this is what is measured by the The Tytron C-3000. It does this by utilizing fixed width and thermally insulated infrared sensors to accurately and objectively measure these asymmetries or lack therof as an indicator of the presence or absence of nervous system interference. When developing the C-3000, mechanical engineer Roger Titone took into consideration shortcomings inherent in previous chiropractic instruments. Following is a list of the advantages of the C-3000.
Infrared technology is far superior to thermocouple instruments for a number of reasons.
The first is that there is no skin contact necessary with infrared instruments. Sensor-skin contact with thermocouple instruments will warm up skin as the scan is being taken, resulting in an inaccurated representation of true. Secondly, infrared technology allows measurement in absolute temperature in addition to relative side-side temperature. The C-3000 software displays these right and left absolute temperatures with the relative temperature line graph. Thus only one hand is required to take a scan, and the non-changing barrel width allows the most accurate sampling of temperature bilaterally as the scanner is moved up the spine.