Detecting Lesions in the Oral Cavity With Thermal Imaging

Sheba Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Carcinoma, Squamous Cell

Treatments: Other: no intervention, observation only

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00868725

SHEBA-09-6870-AO-CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

Previous studies indicate that there are significant differences in the temperature of tumors and normal, adjacent tissues. The present study will test this hypothesis for lesions in the oral cavity. Thermal images of the oral cavities of patients, undergoing examination in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of Sheba hospital, will be compared to the diagnoses of the examining doctors. The results, apart from enhancing the delineation of oral cavity tumors, may help the decision to develop miniature thermal cameras to scan thermally, the GI tract.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients diagnosed in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery as suffering from malignant or possibly malignant lesions.

Exclusion criteria

• none

Trial design

50 participants in 1 patient group

possible oral cancer

Description:

Patients reporting for oral cavity examination with the possibility or certainty of oral lesions

Treatment:

Other: no intervention, observation only