Researchers at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam & Dr Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre in Chennai, developed a new approach for detection of diabetic neuropathy. They used Infrared thermal imaging, a remote & noncontact experimental tool, to study the plantar foot temperatures of 112 subjects with type 2 diabetes selected from a tertiary diabetes centre in South India. Their study showed patients with diabetic neuropathy (defined as Vibration Perception Threshold values on biothesiometry greater than 20) had a higher foot temperature (32-35 oC ) compared to the patients without neuropathy (27-30oC). Infrared thermography (IRT) is a non contact tool that maps the surface temperature of an object in a non-contact & remote manner. Medical infrared thermal imaging is used to study the flow of blood, detection of breast cancer& muscular performance of the humanbody. Medical i n f r a r e d d i a g n o s t i c s uses the fact that many pathological processes in the human organs manifest themselves as local changes in heat production & also changes in blood flow pattern of affected organs or tissues. In clinical diagnostics, infrared imaging is used as physiological test that measures subtle physiological changes that might have caused by conditions such as contusions, fractures, burns, carcinomas, lymphomas, melanomas, prostate cancer, dermatological diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes mellitus & associated pathology, deep venous thrombosis, liver disease & bacterial infections. IR thermal imaging is fast, safe, non-invasive & non-ionizing imaging techniques without any side effects on repeated use. It can map the temperature of the entire human body in a single shot.