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• MRI in Acupuncture Study •
Study on the changes in immediate and dynamic regional brain homogeneity by electroacupuncture at Baihui acupoint
KANG Yingjie  CHEN Yilei  TAN Wenli  HUANG Yanwen  GONG Zhigang  WANG Hui  SHI Yuping  WEI Xiangyu  LUO Shilei  ZHAN Songhua 

Cite this article as: Kang YJ, Chen YL, Tan WL, et al. Study on the changes in immediate and dynamic regional brain homogeneity by electroacupuncture at Baihui acupoint. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2020, 11(2): 89-93. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2020.02.003.


[Abstract] Objective: To compare the difference of regional homogeneity (ReHo) between post-acupuncture and electro-acupuncture stimulation with pre-acupuncture at Baihui acupoint. And to explore the immediate changes of blood oxygenation level dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging (BOLD-fMRI) by electro-acupuncture at Baihui acupoint.Materials and Methods: 20 healthy subjects were selected. After acupuncture and"de qi", connected with the electro-acupuncture stimulator. The scanning was carried out at 3.0 T MRI. Using the flexible head coil, BOLD-fMRI scanning was performed before injection, after injection and during electrical stimulation. The data were processed by RESTplus, and the results were tested by paired t-test.Results: After acupuncture, compared with pre-acupuncture, the brain area with higher ReHo value were left postcentral gyrus and right precentral gyrus, and the brain area with lower ReHo value were bilateral middle temporal gyrus and cerebellum. When the Baihui acupoint was stimulating by electro-acupuncture, compared with pre-acupuncture, the brain area with higher ReHo value were bilateral postcentral gyrus, bilateral precentral gyrus, right superior temporal gyrus, bilateral lingual gyrus, right insular, left calcarine, and the brain area with lower ReHo value were bilateral precuneus and cerebellum.Conclusions: In this study, we obtained the change of ReHo value of "Deqi" state by acupuncture at Baihui acupoint, and which immediately during the electro-acupuncture stimulation. Which proved a feasible method to study the immediate brain effect of head acupoint electro-acupuncture by using the head flexible coil and supporting device.
[Keywords] electro-acupuncture；functional magnetic resonance imaging；regional homogeneity；Baihui acupoint

KANG Yingjie Department of Radiology, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China

CHEN Yilei Department of Radiology, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China

TAN Wenli Department of Radiology, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China

HUANG Yanwen Department of Radiology, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China

GONG Zhigang Department of Radiology, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China

WANG Hui Department of Radiology, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China

SHI Yuping Department of Radiology, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China

WEI Xiangyu Department of Radiology, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China

LUO Shilei Department of Radiology, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China

ZHAN Songhua* Department of Radiology, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China

*Correspondence to: Zhan SH, E-mail:zhansonghua@sina.com

Conflicts of interest   None.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS  This work was part of National Natural Science Foundation of China No. 81573782 Major Achievement Cultivation Project of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine No. ZDCG201701
Received  2019-07-23
Accepted  2019-10-18
DOI: 10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2020.02.003
Cite this article as: Kang YJ, Chen YL, Tan WL, et al. Study on the changes in immediate and dynamic regional brain homogeneity by electroacupuncture at Baihui acupoint. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2020, 11(2): 89-93. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2020.02.003.

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