Thermal Imaging to Diagnose and Monitor Suspected Bacterial Infections

Mass General Brigham

Status: Completed

Conditions: Infections, Bacterial; Pneumonia, Bacterial

Treatments: Device: FLIR ONE

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02292498

2014P001327

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 18 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Subject sent for a clinical chest X-ray (not research) to rule out pneumonia
• Thermal images obtained using FLIR ONE within 4 hours of the chest x-ray
• Signed informed consent obtained
• Subject is a patient at a participating clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Device Feasibility

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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18 participants in 1 patient group

FLIR ONE thermal camera

Experimental group

Description:

Thermal camera (FLIR ONE)

Treatment:

Device: FLIR ONE