The Journal of Korean Medicine (대한한의학회지)
- Volume 27 Issue 3 Serial No. 67
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- Pages.201-211
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- 2006
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- 1010-0695(pISSN)
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- 2288-3339(eISSN)
Objective Evaluation of Sublingual Veins Using Color Differences
색차(色差)값을 활용(活用)한 설하락맥(舌下絡脈)의 정량적(定量的) 평가(評價)
- Park, Young-Jae (Dept. of Biofunctional Medicine and Diagnosis, College of Oriental Medicine, Kyung-Hee University) ;
- Park, Young-Bae (Dept. of Biofunctional Medicine and Diagnosis, College of Oriental Medicine, Kyung-Hee University)
- Published : 2006.09.30
Abstract
Background: Although several efforts have been made recently to grade the severity of sublingual veins, these methods still meet some problems: clinicians' subjectivity and diversity of lighting conditions. Objectives: The purpose of our study was to quantify the severity of sublingual veins using CDs (color differences), and to verify clinical validity of the parameters of sublingual veins using CDs. Methods: We photographed the inferior surface of subjects' tongue from 74 subjects. CDs were computed through two sets of mean