Battlefield acupuncture and near-infrared spectroscopy-miniaturized computer-triggered electrical stimulation of battlefield ear acupuncture points and 50-channel near-infrared spectroscopic mapping

Medical Acupuncture

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 263-270

  Litscher, Gerhard ^a   Bauernfeind, Guenther ^b   Gao, Xinyan ^a,c   Mueller Putz, Gernot ^b   Wang, Lu ^a   Anderle, Waltraud ^a   Gaischek, Ingrid ^a   Litscher, Daniela ^a   Neuper, Christa ^b,d   Niemtzow, Richard C ^e  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^e Joint Base Andrews MD ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Auriculoacupuncture; Battlefield; Cerebral Oxygenation (O 2Hb; Electroacupuncture; HHb); Multichannel Near Infrared Spectroscopy; Pain; Transcranial Monitoring

Indexed keywords

DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN; OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84555196201     PISSN: 19336586     EISSN: 19336594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/acu.2011.0809     Document Type: Article

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