Imaging and processing of meridian and acupoint phenomena

Abstract

The phenomena of meridians and acupoints were investigated by measuring the electrical resistance of the skin over the body with an electro-dermometer. The measurements were then processed in different ways by computer and expressed as screen images to correlate the electrical resistance of the skin to the meridian and acupoint phenomena. The electrocardiographic inverse solution is one of the most promising methods for further understanding the electrophysiological abnormalities of the heart. The initial portion of the QRS in WPW syndrome would be characterized by a single activation front, since the delta wave corresponds to the localized ventricular activation propagated over the accessory atrioventricular pathway. In this study, the location of the dipole was estimated by using an equivalent dipole method for 10 patients with WPW syndrome, and was then compared with the site estimated from a standard electrocardiogram and body surface potential map. In spite of such limitations as the instability of the solution, electrode location error, and lack of an individual torso model, the results demonstrated that the single dipole approxi- mation was appropriate during the delta wave by both the infinite medium model and the plane boundary model, since the index of the nondipolarity was small.