Clinical Thermography Associates provides the most up-to-date clinical thermographic services available. We are a full-service laboratory, with clinical examinations, thermograms and interpretation at the same location. Our high-tech digital, high resolution telethermographic equipment is specifically designed for medical use. Examinations include: Breast, cephalic (head), TMJ (temporo-mandibular joint), upper body scans, lower body scans, and extremity scans.
Dr. George Chapman is one of the original pioneers of medical thermology, publishing his first work on Temporomandibular Joint thermography in 1965. He and Barbara Britt developed the Clinical Thermography Associates™ laboratory in Chula Vista, CA in 1978.
CTA has been the source of over 200 laboratory studies, 14 textbooks and over 40 articles.
CTA has performed over 300,000 thermograhic studies and developed an extensive database to compare films enabling us to determine the statistical risk of many pathologies, including breast malignancy.CTA is a leader in clinical use of thermography for breast scanning that detects cancer risk at a very early stage, and shows hormone imbalance, as well as trigger point and muscle strain.
Thermography is a medical diagnostic technique that measures body function by recording heat emission, which has developed into a state-of-the-art science with specific thermal variables indicating a broad range of health assessment indicators. The radiation wavelength emitted is at the infrared end of the light spectrum, and is considered non-invasive, allowing tests to be done as often as desired. Special instrumentation is required, of course, since infrared rays are invisible to the unaided human eye.