title: [Design of acupoint electric characteristic sensing needle].
abstract: The electric characteristics of acupoints have been confirmed by researchers at home and abroad. Because the traditional detection methods are various (mainly are different positions of the reference electrode), and they are influenced by many affective factors, with unstable results and bad repeatability, so the studies of the electric characteristics of acupoints are limited. The acupoint electric characteristic sensing needle is introduced in detail from its design, detection methods and so on, which can detects changes of the acupoint electric characteristics of channels and acupoints in different healthy states real-timely, dynamically and continuously. It not only can avoid those affective factors, and also the detective results are relatively stable and the repeatability is also better.
authors.affiliation: College of Acupuncture & Moxibustion, Shanghai University of TCM, Shanghai 201203, China.
authors.forename: Tang-yi
authors.initials: TY
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Hua-yuan
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Le
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kuai
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gao
mesh_terms: D015669:Acupuncture Points; D015671:Electroacupuncture / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D009339:Needles