Abstract
Various heating treatments are performed in the medical field throughout the world. To monitor the temperature distribution in the treatment area, it is strongly recommended to develop a noninvasive temperature measuring technique. Due to the fact that the temperature change can generate minute difference in the physical parameter in tissues, it becomes very difficult to measure the temperature change noninvasively for the deep target. Recent development of electromagnetic wave technique enables noninvasive temperature measurement inside the material using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). In this paper, the temperature distribution is recorded using MRI by measuring the phase of longitudinal relaxation time of proton. Furthermore, moxibustion treatment which is one of the techniques of acupuncture and moxibustion therapy was selected as the heat source. The result of temperature distribution map and the simulation were compared and reported. The paper will show that the noninvasive temperature distribution measurement is an innovative methodology for research in the traditional oriental medicine.
