Pressure stimulus study on acupuncture points with multi-channel multimode-fiber diffuse speckle contrast analysis (MMF-DSCA)

Jae Yoon Park; Gisoon Choi; Kijoon Lee

doi:10.1364/BOE.502447

Pressure stimulus study on acupuncture points with multi-channel multimode-fiber diffuse speckle contrast analysis (MMF-DSCA)

Biomed Opt Express. 2023 Oct 6;14(11):5602-5614. doi: 10.1364/BOE.502447. eCollection 2023 Nov 1.

Authors

Jae Yoon Park¹, Gisoon Choi¹, Kijoon Lee¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Daegu, Republic of Korea.

Abstract

A multi-channel multimode-fiber deep tissue flowmetry system has been constructed based on diffuse speckle contrast analysis (DSCA) for simultaneous blood flow measurements at different locations on the human body. This system has been utilized in an acupuncture study within the field of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), primarily focusing on acupuncture points along the large intestine meridian. Deep tissue blood flow was monitored at four different acupuncture points (LI1, LI5, LI10, and ST25) with a sampling rate of 60 Hz while applying pressure stimulus on LI4 (hegu or hapgok). Although the blood flow index (BFI) and blood volume (BV) did not exhibit significant changes after the pressure stimulus, an increase in the amplitude and complexity of low-frequency oscillations (LFOs) in microcirculation was observed.