Comparison of Acupuncturing Hegu (LI4) by Metal or Laser Needle on Facial Blood Perfusion Using Laser Speckle Technique

JAMS Journal of Acupuncture and Meridian Studies

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 187-192

  Tian, Yuying ^a   Huang, Tao ^a   Litscher, Gerhard ^b   Wang, Lu ^b   Wang, Guangjun ^a   Jia, Shuyong ^a   Zhang, Yuqing ^a   Zhang, Weibo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Facial blood perfusion (FBP); Hegu (LI4); Laser speckle technique; Laser needle

Indexed keywords

METAL;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FACE; FACIAL BLOOD PERFUSION; FEMALE; FOREHEAD; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LASER; LASER NEEDLE; MALE; METAL NEEDLE; MOUTH; NEEDLE; NORMAL HUMAN; NOSE; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTIGRAPHY;

EID: 80053534960     PISSN: 20052901     EISSN: 20938152     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jams.2011.09.007     Document Type: Article

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