TY - GEN
T1 - Acupoint stimulation device using focused ultrasound
AU - Tsuruoka, N.
AU - Watanabe, M.
AU - Seki, T.
AU - Matsunaga, T.
AU - Haga, Y.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Acupuncture is used widely in oriental medicine. But it is difficult to stimulate continuously or intermittently in daily life with conventional acupuncture. An acupoint stimulation device using focused ultrasound has been developed. Because the device size is about 6 mm in diameter, it can be easily put on the skin during daily life. Appropriate stimulation intensity and pattern can be chosen by changing driving voltage and pattern. In this paper, we stimulated acupoints with this device and measured the blood flow volume of brachial artery. As a result, the blood flow volume increased significantly as well as acupuncture. Because the device stimulate acupoints with intactness of skin, advantages of this device is free from infection and fear and pain by insertion of acupuncture needles.
AB - Acupuncture is used widely in oriental medicine. But it is difficult to stimulate continuously or intermittently in daily life with conventional acupuncture. An acupoint stimulation device using focused ultrasound has been developed. Because the device size is about 6 mm in diameter, it can be easily put on the skin during daily life. Appropriate stimulation intensity and pattern can be chosen by changing driving voltage and pattern. In this paper, we stimulated acupoints with this device and measured the blood flow volume of brachial artery. As a result, the blood flow volume increased significantly as well as acupuncture. Because the device stimulate acupoints with intactness of skin, advantages of this device is free from infection and fear and pain by insertion of acupuncture needles.
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U2 - 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5626422
DO - 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5626422
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 21095913
AN - SCOPUS:78650815220
SN - 9781424441235
T3 - 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10
SP - 1258
EP - 1261
BT - 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10
T2 - 2010 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10
Y2 - 31 August 2010 through 4 September 2010
ER -