Biomedical engineering meets acupuncture - development of a miniaturized 48-channel skin impedance measurement system for needle and laser acupuncture

BioMedical Engineering Online

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Litscher, Gerhard ^a   Wang, Lu ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSIGNALS; IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; IMPEDANCE PARAMETERS; MATRIX; MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; NEW SYSTEM; OPTICAL STIMULATION; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; VIOLET LASERS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENTS; NEEDLES;

ACUPUNCTURE;

ACUPUNCTURE; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTRONICS; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; NEEDLE; SKIN;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; HUMANS; LASERS; MINIATURIZATION; NEEDLES; SKIN;

EID: 78549254201     PISSN: 1475925X     EISSN: 1475925X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-925X-9-78     Document Type: Article

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