Terahertz biophotonics as a tool for studies of dielectric and spectral properties of biological tissues and liquids

OA Smolyanskaya, NV Chernomyrdin… - Progress in Quantum …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this review, we describe dielectric properties of biological tissues and liquids in the
context of terahertz (THz) biophotonics. We discuss a model of the THz dielectric permittivity …

State-of-the-art in terahertz sensing for food and water security–A comprehensive review

A Ren, A Zahid, D Fan, X Yang, MA Imran… - Trends in food science & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Recently, there has been a dramatic change in the field of terahertz (THz)
technology. The recent advancements in the THz radiation sector considering generation …

A glucose sensing system based on transmission measurements at millimetre waves using micro strip patch antennas

S Saha, H Cano-Garcia, I Sotiriou, O Lipscombe… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
We present a sensing system operating at millimetre (mm) waves in transmission mode that
can measure glucose level changes based on the complex permittivity changes across the …

Glycerol dehydration of native and diabetic animal tissues studied by THz-TDS and NMR methods

OA Smolyanskaya, IJ Schelkanova… - Biomedical optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
The optical clearing method has been widely used for different spectral ranges where it
provides tissue transparency. In this work, we observed the enhanced penetration of the …

Antibodies processed using high dilution technology distantly change structural properties of IFNγ aqueous solution

N Penkov - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Terahertz spectroscopy allows for the analysis of vibrations corresponding to the large-scale
structural movements and collective dynamics of hydrogen-bonded water molecules …

THz spectroscopy of bound water in glucose: direct measurements from crystalline to dissolved state

OP Cherkasova, MM Nazarov, M Konnikova… - Journal of Infrared …, 2020 - Springer
The main reason for the alternation of terahertz (THz) response in biological samples is the
transition of a part of water from its free to bound state and back. To analyze such results, a …

Malignant and benign thyroid nodule differentiation through the analysis of blood plasma with terahertz spectroscopy

MR Konnikova, OP Cherkasova… - Biomedical Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
The liquid and lyophilized blood plasma of patients with benign or malignant thyroid nodules
and healthy individuals were studied by terahertz (THz) time-domain spectroscopy and …

Terahertz spectroscopy as a method for investigation of hydration shells of biomolecules

NV Penkov - Biophysical Reviews, 2023 - Springer
The hydration of biomolecules is one of the fundamental processes underlying the
construction of living matter. The formation of the native conformation of most biomolecules …

Relationships between molecular structure of carbohydrates and their dynamic hydration shells revealed by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy

NV Penkov - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Despite more than a century of research on the hydration of biomolecules, the hydration of
carbohydrates is insufficiently studied. An approach to studying dynamic hydration shells of …

Terahertz spectroscopy of diabetic and non-diabetic human blood plasma pellets

AA Lykina, MM Nazarov, MR Konnikova… - Journal of …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Significance: The creation of fundamentally new approaches to storing various biomaterial
and estimation parameters, without irreversible loss of any biomaterial, is a pressing …