Abstract
In this dissertation, we aim to study the acupuncture effect on stroke rehabilitation. To achieve this purpose, a monitoring system for performance evaluation of motor task in functional MRI environment is developed.
The hypothesis of the clinical study is that acupuncture stimulation at motor zone of scalp acupoint could modulate the brain activation of motor system. Such modulation effect can be explored by fMRI. So we use the monitoring system can be used to observe patients with predominantly motor deficit without remarkable speech problem. Besides the fMRI findings of motor activation and clinical motor performance will be compared.
The monitoring system must be magnetic field compatible, and furthermore, it can also detect very subtle motor performance in the case of stroke during recovery. So the specific requirements of the system challenge the need. The system includes two subsystems. One collects the position signal using a data glove and the other acquires the force signal with a pneumatic system. The understanding of the correlation of the motor task and the brain activation in depth through the integration of the position and force data can therefore be greatly improved. The monitoring system will extend to be the estimation of recovery through the integration of motor task and fMRI.
Keyword: functional MRI¡Bmonitoring system¡Bmotor task¡Bforce measurement
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0626103-171551 |
| Date | 26 June 2003 |
| Creators | Huang, Qun-Hao |
| Contributors | Chi-Cheng Cheng, Ming-Tin Wu, Inn-Chyn Her |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0626103-171551 |
| Rights | withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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