The biopotential of acupuncture points and its standard error

Author

Yeon Hee Ryu ; Seong Jin Cho ; Sang Hun Lee ; Sae Bhom Lee ; Kwang Ho Choi ; Sun Mi Choi

Author_Institution

Div. of Stand. Res. Acupuncture, Korea Inst. of Oriental Med., Daejeon, South Korea

fYear

2011

fDate

24-25 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We studied the biopotential of acupuncture points in six meridians and its standard error to verify how reliable it is to measure electric potential on skin for investigating electrical properties of acupuncture points. Twenty healthy subjects were participated in this study for each meridian. Five-phase acupuncture points were used for recording then smoothing and normalizing were performed to analyze data. There was a positive correlation between standard error of biopotentials and acupuncture depth. It means acupuncture points close to the skin provide more reliable results than ones with deeper acupuncture depth when investigating electrophysiological characteristics of meridians.

Keywords

bioelectric potentials; biomedical measurement; skin; acupuncture depth; acupuncture point biopotential; acupuncture point electrical properties; biopotential standard error; electrophysiological characteristics; five phase acupuncture points; skin electric potential; Electric potential; Electrical resistance measurement; Electrodes; Reliability; Sea measurements; Skin; Smoothing methods; acupuncture; electric potential; meridian; physiology; standard error;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Radio for Future Personal Terminals (IMWS-IRFPT), 2011 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on

Conference_Location

Daejeon

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0961-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-0963-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMWS2.2011.6027185

Filename

6027185