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 …

[HTML][HTML] Terahertz (THz) biophotonics technology: Instrumentation, techniques, and biomedical applications

X Chen, H Lindley-Hatcher, RI Stantchev… - Chemical Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Terahertz (THz) technology has experienced rapid development in the past two decades.
Growing numbers of interdisciplinary applications are emerging, including materials …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in terahertz technology for biomedical applications

Q Sun, Y He, K Liu, S Fan, EPJ Parrott… - … imaging in medicine …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Terahertz instrumentation has improved significantly in recent years such that THz imaging
systems have become more affordable and easier to use. THz systems can now be operated …

The progress and perspectives of terahertz technology for diagnosis of neoplasms: a review

KI Zaytsev, IN Dolganova, NV Chernomyrdin… - Journal of …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the past few decades, significant attention has been paid to the biomedical
applications of terahertz (THz) technology. Nowadays, THz spectroscopy and imaging have …

[HTML][HTML] Real time THz imaging—opportunities and challenges for skin cancer detection

H Lindley-Hatcher, RI Stantchev, X Chen… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
It was first suggested that terahertz imaging has the potential to detect skin cancer twenty
years ago. Since then, THz instrumentation has improved significantly: real time broadband …

[HTML][HTML] THz sensing of human skin: a review of skin modeling approaches

J Wang, H Lindley-Hatcher, X Chen… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
The non-ionizing and non-invasive nature of THz radiation, combined with its high sensitivity
to water, has made THz imaging and spectroscopy highly attractive for in vivo biomedical …

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 …

Design and application of terahertz metamaterial sensor based on DSRRs in clinical quantitative detection of carcinoembryonic antigen

N Cui, M Guan, M Xu, W Fang, Y Zhang, C Zhao… - Optics express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The terahertz (THz) metamaterial biosensor has great potential for label-free and rapid
specificity testing. Here, we designed two highly sensitive structures to detect the …

Triage of in vivo burn injuries and prediction of wound healing outcome using neural networks and modeling of the terahertz permittivity based on the double Debye …

ME Khani, ZB Harris, OB Osman, AJ Singer… - Biomedical Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The initial assessment of the depth of a burn injury during triage forms the basis for
determination of the course of the clinical treatment plan. However, severe skin burns are …

Non-contact terahertz spectroscopic measurement of the intraocular pressure through corneal hydration mapping

A Chen, A Virk, Z Harris, A Abazari… - Biomedical Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) results in endothelial layer damage that can induce
corneal hydration perturbations. We investigated the potential of terahertz spectroscopy in …