Papers

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Name Suguru Nakamura
Belonging department Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion,Faculty of Health Care
Occupation name Lecturer
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Title

Noninvasive MRI Measurement of the Temperature Distribution during Carbonized Moxa-Needle Treatment

Bibliography怀Type

Joint Author

Summary

This paper clarifies the thermal characteristics of moxibustion acupuncture (a method in which moxa is attached to the handle of an acupuncture needle inserted into the human tissues to simultaneously provide nociceptive and thermal stimulation), which was frequently used in clinical acupuncture practice, using non-invasive temperature measurement technology with MRI.

Magazine(name)

Pacific Science Review

Date of Issue

201203