Progress on cutting-edge infrared-terahertz biophysics

P Wang, J Lou, G Fang, C Chang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Infrared-terahertz (IRT) resonant absorption complies with unique biomolecule fingerprints,
including neurotransmitters, proteins, ribonucleic acid, and deoxyribonucleic acid, rendering …

[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 …

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 …

[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 …

Optimal hyperosmotic agents for tissue immersion optical clearing in terahertz biophotonics

GR Musina, IN Dolganova… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, a thorough analysis of hyperosmotic agents for the immersion optical clearing
(IOC) in terahertz (THz) range was performed. It was aimed at the selection of agents for the …

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 …

Quantitative evaluation of transdermal drug delivery patches on human skin with in vivo THz-TDS

X Ding, G Costa, AI Hernandez-Serrano… - Biomedical Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Transdermal drug delivery (TDD) has been widely used in medical treatments due to various
advantages, including delivering drugs at a consistent rate. However, variations in skin …