Monitoring cortices response to acupunctures with a functional near infrared imaging system
Acupuncture has been used and proved to be effective in the treatment of some diseases. In this paper a functional near infrared (fNIR) imaging system was used to monitor the cortices response to acupunctures in clinical experiments. The imaging system is based on continuous-wave NIR imaging technique. In clinical experiments, acupunctures were firstly applied to a group of volunteers to investigate their cortices response. Then in the contrast experiments both sticking ear bean and actual needle acupuncture were applied to validate the cortices response. The clinical studies show that acupuncture can stimulate frontal brain activity to a certain extent and increase the cerebral blood volumes(CBVs) near the sub-surface of the frontal brain. Results show that fNIR imaging is capable of non-invasively monitoring the acupunctures treatment.
acupuncture near infrared functional near infrared
Yanping Chen Daifa Wang Canxing Xu Jing Bai Chew Seng MOK
Department of Biomedical Engineering,School of Medicine Tsinghua University Beijing,China Division of Bioengineering National University of Singapore Singapore
国际会议
北京
英文
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2009-06-11（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）