Nuclear medicine methods in the assessment of acupuncture effects: a short review

Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology

Deise Elisabete Souza²  Bernardo Machado Rebello²  Reginaldo De Carvalho Silva Filho¹  Raquel Terra Agostinho²  Sohaku R. C. Bastos¹  Mario Bernardo-filho² 

[1] ,Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcantara Gomes Departamento de Biofísica e BiometriaRio de Janeiro RJ ,Brasil

关键词: Acupuncture;    nuclear medicine;    Traditional Chinese Medicine;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S1516-89132007000600012

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

The mechanisms of acupuncture are poorly understood. In consequence, numerous investigators have conducted clinical trials to test the efficacy of acupuncture in various conditions. We have used PubMed database system to evaluate the number of publications in acupuncture and nuclear medicine procedures in the period from 1964 to 2007, using the keywords: "nuclear medicine and acupuncture", "SPECT and acupuncture", "PET and acupuncture", "scintigraphy and acupuncture", "radionuclide and acupuncture", "radiopharmaceutical and acupuncture", "radioisotope and acupuncture" and "99mTc and acupuncture". Some papers published in English language were selected and a short review is presented The analysis of the number of publications shows that when a method is well accepted by the scientific community, as the methods used in nuclear medicine, the interest in the development of research increases. Moreover, important findings are presented when the nuclear medicine image is used to evaluate the effect of the acupuncture.

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