[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 …

Terahertz radiation and the skin: a review

AI Nikitkina, PY Bikmulina, ER Gafarova… - Journal of …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Significance: Terahertz (THz) radiation has demonstrated a great potential in biomedical
applications over the past three decades, mainly due to its non-invasive and label-free …

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 …

Accurate and early prediction of the wound healing outcome of burn injuries using the wavelet Shannon entropy of terahertz time-domain waveforms

ME Khani, OB Osman, ZB Harris… - Journal of …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Significance Severe burn injuries cause significant hypermetabolic alterations that are
highly dynamic, hard to predict, and require acute and critical care. The clinical assessments …

Biomedical application of terahertz imaging technology: a narrative review

M Cong, W Li, Y Liu, J Bi, X Wang… - … Imaging in Medicine …, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background and Objective Terahertz (THz) imaging has wide applications in biomedical
research due to its properties, such as non-ionizing, non-invasive and distinctive spectral …

Terahertz probe for real time in vivo skin hydration evaluation

AI Hernandez-Serrano, X Ding, J Young… - Advanced …, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
This study introduces a handheld terahertz (THz) scanner designed to quantitatively
evaluate human skin hydration levels and thickness. This device, through the incorporation …

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 …

THz in vivo measurements: the effects of pressure on skin reflectivity

J Wang, RI Stantchev, Q Sun, TW Chiu… - Biomedical optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Terahertz (THz) light is non-ionizing and highly sensitive to subtle changes in water
concentration which can be indicative of disease. The short THz penetration depth in bio …