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The purpose of present study is to observe the change in capillaroscopic features before and after pulsed magnetic field (PMF) stimulus: the number, shape, length of capillary loop, and diameters of efferent capillary, and images of capillary loop. Nailfold capillary microscopy was used to quantitatively estimate the change of morphological characteristics of the capillaries. Capillary blood flow is recorded using video camera recorded at a frame rate of 60fps attached to the microscope. The velocities of capillary blood cell were 441 ± 22 and 508 ± 20 µm/s, before and after PMF stimulus, respectively. For the nailfold capillary morphologies, compared to before PMF, the more clearly visible loops are arranged as well as the capillary loop lengthened after PMF stimulus. Also the numbers of capillary loop/mm increased after PMF stimulus. In addition, tortuous capillary turned to hairpin shaped loop and the number of tortuous and abnormal capillaries are reduced after PMF stimulus. Our results proved the PMF stimulus on the palm of left hand for 10 min. provide the improvement of capillary blood flow, and it decreases vascular resistance in the blood micro-circulatory system. In addition, our study suggested quantitative and qualitative parameters of the nailfold vasculature in order to elucidate the effect of PMF. For expanding our findings, we need to have more subjects across a wide spectrum of age and with microvascular abnormalities, such as scleroderma, dermatomyositis and related disorders.