Bioengineering assessment of acupuncture, Part 5: Cerebral near-infrared spectroscopy

Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 439-457

  Litscher, Gerhard ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biomedical engineering; Electroacupuncture; High tech acupuncture; Laserneedle acupuncture; Neuro monitoring; Traditional Chinese medicine; Transcranial cerebral oximetry

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BRAIN; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOGLOBIN; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

HIGH TECH ACUPUNCTURE; LASER NEEDLE ACUPUNCTURE; NEURO MONITORING; TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE; TRANSCRANIAL CEREBRAL OXIMETRY;

ELECTROACUPUNCTURE;

ACUPUNCTURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHINESE MEDICINE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEEDLE; OXYGENATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 34347209439     PISSN: 0278940X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/CritRevBiomedEng.v34.i6.10     Document Type: Article

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