Infrared thermography fails to visualize stimulation-induced meridian-like structures

BioMedical Engineering Online

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Litscher, Gerhard ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED CAMERAS; INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; STIMULATION INDUCED MERIDIAN LIKE STRUCTURE;

ACUPUNCTURE; CAMERAS; LASER APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CHINESE MEDICINE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFRARED PHOTOGRAPHY; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; WAVEFORM; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEAT; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SKIN TEMPERATURE; STIMULATION; THERMOGRAPHY;

ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ADULT; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 27744583560     PISSN: 1475925X     EISSN: 1475925X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-925X-4-38     Document Type: Article

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