• Breast series imaging typically requires 10 minutes. While standing in front of the thermal imaging camera, you will be asked to inter-clasp your fingers/hands on the back of the head, with your elbows pointing out to your sides. While you are disrobed from the waist-up, the technician will be seated with her back to you during the actual imaging appointment. Between 7-9 views/thermal images are acquired (the number is dependent upon breast surface area and size).

• Abdomen/Back/Face series imaging typically requires 10 minutes. Imaging includes a full spine view, an abdominal view, a front of the neck view, and three face views.

• Full-Body series imaging typically requires 30-35 minutes. While a gown is worn throughout imaging, you will be asked to raise and lower it as needed to expose the skin surface being imaged. The technician's back will face you during the actual imaging (clients conceal their genitalia with a blackbody device.) Typically 25+ views/thermal images are acquired.

• Upper Body series imaging typically requires 15-20 minutes. Clients remove their upper-body garments to be disrobed from the pubic bone-up. The technician's back will face you during the actual imaging. 12+ views/thermal images are acquired.

• Lower Body series imaging typically requires 15-20 minutes. While a gown is worn throughout imaging, you will be asked to raise and lower it as needed to expose the skin surface being imaged. The technician's back will face you during the actual imaging appointment (clients conceal their genitalia with a blackbody device.) Typically, 13+ views/thermal images are acquired.

• Sympathetic/Stress Challenges are included when imaging certain pain clients in an effort to provoke the sympathetic nervous system and to study the subsequent vascular/circulatory response in the body part of interest. This step involves placing the hands (or feet) in a temperature controlled water basin for a duration determined by protocol, and then imaging the body part of interest every 30 seconds for a 5 minute duration.

30 minute (approximate) debriefing/payment 

At your first imaging session, you will be provided with a DVD and accompanying handout to take home. Because thermography is less understood by the public than technologies like mammography and ultrasound, you may find this introductory education helpful. You are encouraged to watch it before receiving your interpretive report in the mail; it's purpose is to provide a basic understanding of how thermal imaging works, what the interpretive doctor looks for, and how thermobiological findings can be helpful to you and your health providers.

At any imaging session, the self-help, breast health education book, "Better Breast Health - for Life!"™, with risk reduction strategies, will be available for review and purchase at a 20% discount. (While this book is an empowering self-help book, it is in no way a substitute for professional healthcare. Instead, it repeatedly recommends that readers "obtain qualified health provider(s) for consultation".)

Complimentary Community Resource Sheets listing functional medicine specialists by specialty and locality (compiled by our clients) are available at each imaging session as well.

After each imaging session, you will be asked to provide a form of payment and advised that your report documentation will be mailed directly to you, typically within 7-10 days. (24 hour STAT reports are available upon request and require an additional charge.) Documentation includes: an introductory letter; interpretive report(s); a guide to understanding breast thermal imaging reports; all your images printed in grayscale, reversed grayscale, and in color; and an accounting statement. If you were referred to The Thermogram Center by a doctor who commonly refers to our center and would like a complimentary report to go to that doctor, one will be provided.

Documentation Output;

    ●    A cover letter recapping the imaging services at The Thermogram Center

    ●    Thermal Imaging Report(s)

    ●    Guide to Understanding Breast Thermogram Reports and Further Evaluation Resources (breast imaging only)

    ●    Grayscale, reversed grayscale, and color print-outs of your images

    ●    Financial Statement of Account

This documentation output is typically mailed to you, or, you can make arrangements to pick it up from an imaging location... the choice is yours. Please be sure to let us know of your preferences.

* Each imaging location is provided for a fee by an independently operated health provider with no other connection to The Thermogram Center, Inc. Each location provides facilities and space without service supervision, client involvement, or medical liability.