Bioengineering assessment of acupuncture, Part 6: Monitoring - Neurophysiology

Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 1-36

  Litscher, Gerhard ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biomedical engineering; EEG; Evoked potentials; High tech acupuncture; Laserneedle acupuncture; Traditional Chinese medicine

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; PATIENT MONITORING;

HIGH-TECH ACUPUNCTURE; LASERNEEDLE ACUPUNCTURE; TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE;

NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

ACUPUNCTURE; ANALGESIA; BIOENERGY; BIOENGINEERING; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENTROPY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MONITORING; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 37249086200     PISSN: 0278940X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/CritRevBiomedEng.v35.i1-2.10     Document Type: Review

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