A system for determining presence or absence of one or more thermally
distinguishable objects in a living body is disclosed. The system
comprises a combined image generator configured for combining
non-thermographic three-dimensional data of a three-dimensional tissue
region in the living body with thermographic two-dimensional data of the
tissue region so as to generate three-dimensional temperature data
associated with the three-dimensional tissue region. In a preferred
embodiment the combined image generator comprises a computing device
configured for calculating the location and/or orientation of the
thermally distinguishable object in the three-dimensional tissue region,
based on the three-dimensional temperature data.