Imaging of ultraweak spontaneous photon emission from human body displaying diurnal rhythm

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Kobayashi, Masaki ^a   Kikuchi, Daisuke ^a   Okamura, Hitoshi ^b,c  

^a TOHOKU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CAMERA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPLAY SYSTEM; ENERGY METABOLISM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIGHT INTENSITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; PHOTON;

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENERGY METABOLISM; HUMANS; PHOTONS;

EID: 67650898537     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006256     Document Type: Article

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