Noninvasive characterisation of foot reflexology areas by swept source-optical coherence tomography in patients with low back pain

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Dalal, Krishna ^a   Elanchezhiyan, D ^a   Das, Raunak ^b   Dalal, Devjyoti ^a   Pandey, Ravindra Mohan ^a   Chatterjee, Subhamoy ^c   Upadhyay, Ashish Datt ^a   Maran, V Bharathi ^a   Chatterjee, Jyotirmoy ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOOT REFLEXOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMINANCE; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEXOLOGY; SKIN COLOR; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 84876591342     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/983769     Document Type: Article

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