Laser acupuncture is known to be a kind of the low energy laser therapy that may stimulate the nervous system. This laser therapy is being extensively in clinical use, while the mechanism has not been elucidated. For the establishment of the effectively therapeutic conditions from the engineering standpoint, it is necessary to obtain quantitatively the thermal stimuli produced by the laser acupuncture. From the point of view, this paper presents an ananalytical method of calculating the 3-dimensional distribution of the thermal stress caused by the laser irradiation. The numerical results are also shown.
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