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] 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 …

Measurement of tissue optical properties in a wide spectral range: a review

IS Martins, HF Silva, EN Lazareva… - Biomedical Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
A distinctive feature of this review is a critical analysis of methods and results of
measurements of the optical properties of tissues in a wide spectral range from deep UV to …

A comprehensive survey on hybrid communication in context of molecular communication and terahertz communication for body-centric nanonetworks

K Yang, D Bi, Y Deng, R Zhang… - … , Biological and Multi …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the huge advancement of nanotechnology over the past years, the devices are
shrinking into micro-scale, even nano-scale. Additionally, the Internet of nano-things (IoNTs) …

[HTML][HTML] Terahertz imaging for breast cancer detection

L Wang - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Terahertz (THz) imaging has the potential to detect breast tumors during breast-conserving
surgery accurately. Over the past decade, many research groups have extensively studied …

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 …

A dielectric model of human breast tissue in terahertz regime

BCQ Truong, HD Tuan, AJ Fitzgerald… - IEEE Transactions …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The double Debye model has been used to understand the dielectric response of different
types of biological tissues at terahertz (THz) frequencies but fails in accurately simulating …

Terahertz spectroscopy of human skin tissue models with different melanin content

XG Peralta, D Lipscomb, GJ Wilmink… - Biomedical optics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Terahertz imaging has been proposed for burns and skin cancer identification. However, the
role of melanocytes, melanosomes, melanin content and distribution in determining the …

A robust protocol for in vivo THz skin measurements

H Lindley-Hatcher, AI Hernandez-Serrano… - Journal of Infrared …, 2019 - Springer
This work presents an experimental setup to control the way in which pressure interferes
with the repeatability of in vivo THz skin measurements. By integrating a pressure sensor …