Bioengineering assessment of acupuncture, part 4: Functional magnetic resonance imaging

Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 327-345

  Litscher, Gerhard ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Biomedical engineering; Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Laserneedle acupuncture; Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM)

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; BRAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEEDLES;

FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (FMRI); LASERNEEDLE ACUPUNCTURE; TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE (TCM);

ACUPUNCTURE;

ACUPUNCTURE; BIOENGINEERING; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CHINESE MEDICINE; DATA ANALYSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; NEUROMODULATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 33845663686     PISSN: 0278940X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/CritRevBiomedEng.v34.i4.30     Document Type: Review

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