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Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain in the Investigation of Acupuncture

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Clinical Acupuncture

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Medical imaging techniques that allow noninvasive observation of the structure and function of the human brain have improved dramatically during the past few decades. The relatively poor resolution of the biohazardous two-dimensional x-ray technique has been effectively replaced by safer and far more sensitive optical scanning techniques, including x-ray computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). These modern advances in brain imaging routinely provide critical diagnostic information in such conditions as stroke, multiple sclerosis, and Parkinson’s disease as well as basic insights into how we experience, respond to, and even think about the world [2, 5–8, 12, 15, 18, 22–24, 27].

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  1. Akupunktur Centrum, Goltsteinstrasse 26, 40211, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Gabriel Stux M.D.

  2. Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, 10525 S. E. Cherry Blossom Drive, Portland, Oregon, 97216, USA

    Richard Hammerschlag Ph. D.

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Cho, ZH., Na, CS., Wang, E.K., Lee, SH., Hong, IK. (2001). Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain in the Investigation of Acupuncture. In: Stux, G., Hammerschlag, R. (eds) Clinical Acupuncture. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56732-2_5

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