Chinese medicine in new century and the research on Photonic Chinese Medicine

Author

Liu, Shing-Hong

Author_Institution

Chinese Acad. of Sci., South China Normal Univ., Guangzhou

fYear

2008

fDate

30-31 May 2008

Firstpage

16

Lastpage

17

Abstract

Traditional chinese medicine (TCM) takes advantages with phenomenal and philosophical principle, that is curative, easy to practice, and low expense, and reliable. The traditional chinese medicine is now armed with advanced technique to develop on diagnosis & clinic technologiesdasia standardization, Medicament typesdasia reformation, digitized with the help of computer, precise diagnosis and curative that make TCM more objective and sensitive, easy to be understand, extensively being used everywhere. For example, the color and luster diagnosis measured with optical coherence tomography (OCT), thermal texture maps (TTM) analyzed with principle of TCM.

Keywords

biomedical optical imaging; laser applications in medicine; optical tomography; radiation therapy; skin; BIANSHI; color diagnosis; erythrocytic deformability; herbs observation; information theory; laser acupuncture; low intensity laser irradiation; low power He-Ne laser illumination; luster diagnosis; optical coherence tomography; photonic Chinese medicine; physical therapy; radiation therapy; skin; stone needle; therapeutic effect; thermal texture maps; traditional Chinese medicine; Biomedical computing; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical imaging; Biomedical informatics; Engineering in medicine and biology; Laser modes; Laser theory; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical treatment; Photonics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine, 2008. ITAB 2008. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenzhen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2254-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2255-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITAB.2008.4570503

Filename

4570503