NCT02292498

Thermal Imaging to Diagnose and Monitor Suspected Bacterial Infections

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 18 (actual)
• Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to test the feasibility of using thermal images to diagnose bacterial pneumonia instead of a chest x-ray in the future. More specifically, the objectives of this study are: 1) to determine if thermal imaging, using a commercial thermal camera can detect areas of heat emitted from the chest in similar locations to where a chest X-ray shows focal consolidation consistent with bacterial pneumonia; 2) to evaluate whether changes in heat emitted from the chest changes over time if it is possible to obtain serial images of the chest.

Conditions

• Infections, Bacterial
• Pneumonia, Bacterial

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	FLIR ONE

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-11-01
• Primary completion: 2016-06-01
• Completion: 2016-06-01
• First posted: 2014-11-17
• Last updated: 2017-05-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States