Health and Medicine

Liquid Cooled Garment

Originally published in 1977
Body

Liquid-cooled bra aids in detection of cancer using technique known as infrared thermography. Water flowing through tubes in bra cools the skin surface to improve resolution of thermograph image. Cancerous tissue recovers from cooling faster than normal tissue because of increased blood flow characteristics of cancerous tumors. By increasing the temperature difference between normal and cancerous tissue through cooling, differentiation becomes more apparent on thermograph.

Full article: http://hdl.handle.net/hdl:2060/20070019903

Abstract
Liquid-cooled bra aids in detection of cancer using technique known as infrared thermography. Water flowing through tubes in bra cools the skin surface to improve resolution of thermograph image. Cancerous tissue recovers from cooling faster than normal tissue because of increased blood flow characteristics of cancerous tumors. By increasing the temperature difference between normal and cancerous tissue through cooling, differentiation becomes more apparent on thermograph.
Liquid Cooled Garment

Liquid Cooled Garment

Liquid Cooled Garment

Liquid Cooled Garment